To Prepare Flight Muscles for Use on a Cool Morning

question 38

Multiple Choice

To prepare flight muscles for use on a cool morning, hawkmoths ________.

• A) relax the muscles completely until after they launch themselves into the air
• B) decrease their standard metabolic rate
• C) rapidly contract and relax these muscles to generate metabolic warmth
• D) reduce the metabolic rate of the muscles to rest them before flight

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