Endothermy

Nearly all mammals are endothermic ("warm-blooded"). Most mammals also have hair to help
keep them warm. Like birds, mammals can forage or hunt in weather and climates too cold for
nonavian reptiles and large insects.
Endothermy requires plenty of food energy, so mammals eat more food per unit of body weight
than most reptiles. Small insectivorous mammals eat prodigious amounts for their size.
A rare exception, the naked mole-rat, produces little metabolic heat, so it is considered an
operational poikilotherm. Birds and tuna are also endothermic, so endothermy is not peculiar to
mammals.