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Sammy Njoroge using hose to cool down the horses during the Fawcus cup and the Moi Trophy at Manyatta Polo club in Gilgil Nakuru. [Kipsang Joseph, Standard]

If your memory is still serving you right you will remember that in biology, we studied temperature - the hotness or coldness of a body. We further studied animals and grouped them into broad two categories namely cold and warm-blooded animals. Warm-blooded animals - Homeotherms are animals most of them mammals that maintain a constant internal body temperature while the opposite was Poikilotherms - whose temperature varies according to the surrounding.

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