notsobigjoe wrote:
Can I ask the stupidest question in the world? What do the animals do when it's that cold?
People adapt to cold or extremes in temperatures, too. While I was in college I worked at a market similar to 7/11. My job to stock the 38 degree cooler, but also, I kept the bathrooms clean and cleaned up outside including sweeping at what ever temperature it happened to be. It was frequently near or over 100 during the summer.
When I started, I wore a jacket to go into the cooler. By the time that I worked there for a while, I went in to the cooler with just a short sleeve light shirt with no issues. I also wore that same shirt outside. I remember that year I never got cold the entire Winter no matter if I was walking or standing still while hunting. The point being even fragile humans have the ability to adapt.
Animals can adapt quite a bit with their fur coats and/or layers of fat. Even birds or bees have survival mechanisms like huddling together and are mostly good as long as they aren't wet. Youtube and other shows like Discovery etc go into details. Over time, the animals that can adapt stay there and the ones that can't simply die off.
