We Would Not Survive | Winter Survival Is Grim For Poorly Adapted Ape
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- Опубликовано: 4 фев 2025
- December 10, 2024
While out walking in the woods I admire how the small birds and other wildlife are so well adapted to survive in cold climates while we are not. I contemplate whether we will be able to survive here if we lose our ability to keep warm.
Climate change, Hypothermia, winter birds, winter insulation, thermoregulation.
I've been practicing and studying winter survival for a great number of years.
Knowledge is key to surviving in our harsh winters
Yes as a required minimum. Plus adequate clothing, shelter, various tools, water and of course, food. Ideally too we would have a number of family or friends all assisting in surviving. Virtually impossible without all of those things in northern climates.
This is why I stand for oil , gas and coal. That is how we survive in the north and that is not a dream.
What about the countless cultures that survived above the Arctic Circle without any of those things?
Great topic Todd. Love learning about the survival instincts of all creatures. And how they adapt.
My parents had an amazing domestic cat, as a pet. Her name was Nakia, and she was an all-black short-haired cat.
Nakia had remarkable survival, and hunting instincts. She survived 19 years from 1974 until 1993.
Back when overnight winter temperatures were frigid, often in the minus 20 to minus 30 range, Nakia would want to go OUTSIDE.
Nakia would go to the back door, and meow to us. That she wanted outside. Nakia would hunt mice, that would tunnel underneath the snow.
Even though Nakia had tonnes of cat food, and the warm indoors of our house. She chose to go outside to hunt in frigid overnight weather.
I will never forget her. She was a survivor, and had so much inner strength, and independence.🙂
That’s an interesting story. Cat instincts are very strong. We have probably at least two feral cats hanging around our barn right now. They come from local cats I suppose and manage to survive as virtually wild. There is quite a young one hanging around now so we have been putting out food for it and it seems to be eating it. I see these on my trail cameras quite often. A sad life really but they are very skittish and run away when they spot you.
@@hervedelnorte7928 Yes, it is a sad life. Good for you, for feeding them. After time, it is possible to make them approachable. But they never fully trust humans.
Nakia was fully domesticated. But she had a tremendous hunting instinct.
I used to read many books on Bigfoot as a little kid.
At the time, in the late 1970's, I used to wonder why they could not find him in winter. Given how obvious his tracks in the snow, would be.
Yes, a reasonable question for a young kid to ask and not many good answers. Even in very remote areas large, strange tracks would be very obvious to a range of people who might be wandering through such areas for a variety of reasons. I could perhaps see such a creature as a “Yeti” surviving in the deep Himalayas or somewhere similar without being seen too often but most other places have way too many people always passing through for them to be unnoticed I think. As much as I would like to think Bigfoot are out there. 😊
@@hervedelnorte7928 As you know, Bigfoot is considered, very intelligent. I would read, they would obscure their tracks by walking in creeks. Or walk where there was tree cover, and little snow. Or other ways to make tracking them, difficult. Though, after all these years, it remains strange, nothing has materialized.
Good question! I've been wondering that for a while. Take a look at Wim Hof - the Iceman.
Most would die. Some people would thrive though. Populations have been living in extreme cold conditions for thousands of years.
I was mainly contemplating if we as individuals or small groups were all of a sudden put out in the cold, that most of us would not survive as do wild animals. Yes, if we live in large, socially interacting groups with tools, coverings and shelters, then we can survive as history points out.
I sometimes wonder exactly how we evolved to be so reliant on technology like clothing, shelter, heating etc. I suppose as a species we started in warmer climates which would explain how we could slowly ease into being a hairless ape, but even animals in Africa have fur for protection (uv, lacerations), and cold night time temperatures.
So it's hard to imagine how we lost our body hair without really needing to as an adaptation. Unless we slowly poked North and had to supplement our hair with objects like grass and animals skins to stay alive, and then spread that knowledge or adaptation back down south, ultimately causing humans remaining in warmer climates to become hairless as well.
I know running animals like horses have very short hair and sweat, and we have a similar perspiration adaptation for running, but horses still have a thick coat of protective hair?? So what inspired us to start wearing the skins of dead animals or grasses for extra protection?
It's so fascinating and just scratching the surface. Think of all the other technologies we rely on...
Somehow our genus has been on a fundamentally different trajectory than other animals for a million years... think of all the moments in our history that we just have no idea how long they took, or how it played out??
It’s all fascinating to think about that’s for sure. The many ancestors that led to Homo sapiens. I guess by the time we could exist in cold climates we had ways of dealing with cold and scarce food.
Yeah, if they dropped me off buck wild naked in the middle of nowhere in the freezing winter, it'd be a tough one indeed. We don't start from nothing though - that's how life works. What people are most in danger of these days is wanton ignorance, apathy, and placated contentment.
Good points. But even with a good set of cloths and some tools, surviving winter north of snowline would be difficult. Even for a small group of people. Going back to my video I was just marvelling at how tiny, seemingly frail birds can tough out winters that we can’t make it through.
I would go underground, dig a hole to build root cellar, natural insulation. When humans move to moon & Mars we will be moving underground to survive is harsh cold & radiation.
Well let’s hope we don’t have to do that too soon down the road. Maybe I should just start heading south.
And...be thrust out there in your birthday suit.
That’s right! Like all the other creatures.
Live where the turkeys live.
Yes but not much good without cloths and shelter.
I submit, people never really did survive on their own... For long.
It took a tribe with various skills to get along.
One person might be a scouting party, or go on a hunt. But all alone, your time would be limited
Without modern technology most of Canada, away from coasts, reverts to very low numbers of people and the beginnings of the never ending hunt.
Fire, skin clothing and shortened lives. Reality.