Animal Life at Low Temperature

To humans, cold has a distinctly positive quality. ''Frostbite'', ''a nip in the air'', ''biting cold'', all express the concept of cold as an entity which attacks the body, numbing and damaging it in the process. Probably the richness of descriptive English in this area stems from the early experiences of a group of essentially tropical apes, making their living on a cold and windswept island gro...