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The phrase is 'anything warm perspires.' As biology it is wrong — most warm animals have almost no sweat glands. As physics it is right once restated: any warm, wet surface in unsaturated air is losing water, and that loss is how it stays cool. The driver is not warmth but the vapour-pressure gradient, which is why humid heat kills.
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