Which outcome follows when a lizard regulates its body temperature through peripheral vasodilation in a hot exterior environment?

💡 Explanation

When a lizard undergoes peripheral vasodilation in a hot environment, increased blood flow to the skin's surface facilitates radiative and convective heat loss because heat dissipates from the warmer blood to the cooler surroundings. Therefore, increased convective heat loss results, rather than reduced metabolism, decreased cooling, or elevated temperature, each requiring alternative physiological mechanisms.

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