P3_9 Scooby and Shaggy: Metabolic Miracles

Abstract

In the cartoon `What's New Scooby-Doo?' the characters Shaggy and Scooby are seen to eat large volumesof food without gaining any weight. Their effective temperatures in order to radiate away the excess energywere calculated to be T_Sh ~ 97 ± 033 °C for Shaggy, and T_Sc ~ 140 ± 43 °C for Scooby. It was concludedthat under normal circumstances, the subjects would perish of extreme hyperthermia. It was also notedthat Shaggy could survive if he was able to sweat continuously at the maximum rate for a human

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