However, endothermic homeotherms (the animals generally characterized as warm-blooded) both produce more heat and have better ways to retain and regulate it than other animals.
Eggs are then sequestered within the portal system (or perivesicular plexus in some species) of homeotherms which restricts egg dispersal but limits the resulting pathology to less sensitive organs.
Organisms can be categorized as poikilotherms (poikilo changing), which are tolerant of internal temperature fluctuations, and homeotherms (homeo same), which must maintain a constant core temperature.