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Originally Posted by trux
The article actually does not tell the seals stop shivering because they get warmer when diving. Quite oppositely - it tells they stop shivering on purpose to cool down the body temperature, hence slowing down also the metabolism and the oxygen consumption.
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Yes I agree, and our perception of feeling warmer during the dive is not necessarily because we are warmer... quite the opposite I'd think. It probably goes hand-in-hand with the body's mechanism of 'cancelling' shivering while submerged.
