Deer, foxes, rabbits, etc. are all warm blooded mammals that regularly experience sub-freezing temperatures that would kill humans in a matter of hours. How do they survive?
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Worked with a guiding company and it’s worth noting that plenty of mammals do freeze to death. Cold = death.
That said, yes it’s mindboggling just how astonishingly weak humans are in comparison to most mammals. Even if you tried to mimic them (we sure do, we literally physically remove their skin and put it on) and most of us would still be dead soon.
Anyway, I’m told, in part, this is ‘in part’ but most non-human mammals also have a different kind of muscle array. So never mind the fat and fur, this is the actual muscles is woven in a way that may also trap and contain heat way better than humans.
To me the most amazing question is how are humans so incredibly weak and fragile compared to those mammals. We’re the freak and weak thing after all.
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