But what about animals that survive the winter elements without a toque ... they just dive beneath to search for their food. Playful in nature, these otters seem to delight in the cold.

Hi, we’re Magali & Stefan. We live with nature on a Zone 5b–6a piece of land here in Canada, and it’s an honour to care for it. We grow our own food and help restore native biodiversity to the land.

WHEN the oxygen consumption of a species of poikilothermal animals is measured at various temperatures, it is found that more oxygen is used at high temperatures than at low. This is partly ...