What's remarkable is how easily the human body will fail when exposed to cold, compared to many other animals. Ducks for example will sleep on open ice as if i

What's remarkable is how easily the human body will fail when exposed to cold, compared to many other animals. Ducks for example will sleep on open ice as if it was nothing, then idly waddle over to a hole in the ice to sleep some more swimming on the freezing water, occasionally engaging in a bit of food gathering or social interaction. But if a human survives those conditions with inadequate or compromised tools for more than a few hours we write long form about their feat! It almost seems as if to a human body deprived of tools (clothing, shelter, fire), a freezing cold environment comes surprisingly close to outer space in terms of deadlyness, hours of survival instead of seconds.