I watched the birds in our garden and was wondering if they feel cold being outside all day. Then I wondered about polar bears and sperm whales too, we always say “their feathers/fur/fat keeps them warm”, but let’s say they didn’t have these factors: Would they feel the same sensation of “cold” like we do or would they not even notice it, does their skin have less sensitive temperature receptors for example?
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All sorts of animsls have different ways of sending temperature. Even humans sense temperature as a change in temperature rather than strict measurement. You can see this by touching a piece of wood and a piece of metal that are the same temperature.
Different animals also adapt to certain temperatures, both physiologically with evolution and psychologically individually. Humans that grow up in Norway will perceive cold differently than humans that grow up in Egypt.
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