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Cold Tolerant

Vascular counter-current heat exchangers and cellular cryoprotectants that keep blood flowing in freezing temperatures.

5 creatures with this trait
American pika on a lichen-covered rock with a mouthful of green plants

American Pika

Ochotona princeps

A rabbit relative that stacks hay in summer and can be killed by two hours above 28°C.

Art Punk & Experimental Post-PunkView →
▸ Tune-Yards
Arctic fox in its white winter coat curled up in snow among snow-capped rocks

Arctic Fox

Vulpes lagopus

Feet kept just above the point where living tissue freezes, a coat color set by one gene, and satellite-tracked treks of up to 40 kilometers to hotspots on the sea ice.

Glacial Ambient & Drone SoundscapesView →
▸ Ásgeir
Common European adder coiled on the forest floor, the dark zigzag along its back clear

Common European Adder

Vipera berus

A zigzag-backed viper that lives from Britain to the Pacific and is the only snake north of the Arctic Circle in Scandinavia.

Trip-Hop & Velvet DowntempoView →
▸ Gotan Project
White yak with long shaggy hair beside a brown calf, a black yak behind them on grass

Domestic Yak

Bos grunniens

Oversized heart and lungs, a shaggy coat and a home up to 5,000 m high.

80s Retrowave & SynthwaveView →
▸ Berlin
Muskox bull standing in tundra grass with shaggy brown coat and curved horns

Muskox

Ovibos moschatus

Bulls settle rivalries by charging 50 yards or more and colliding head-first on their horn bosses.

Sludge Metal & Abyssal DoomView →
▸ Conan