Do cold-blooded animals find extreme cold weather uncomfortable?

Question

Because their core temperature fluctuates with environmental temperature, do they even notice? Do they get agitated when it is hot out? Humans and warm-blooded creatures obviously do not like very hot or very cold weather. But what about cold-blooded creatures?

Answer 1

Not so much uncomfortable, as they tend to become nonfunctional and those who can hibernate will go into a dormant state, and those that can't, will die! You can make honey-bees [cold blooded too, not just reptiles!] fall asleep by lowering the temperature to about 38 F or 4 C. Doesn't hurt them, they just fall asleep and will remain that way until 1) they die of starvation or 2) it warms up. Quite a few of these cold-blooded creatures do not have the pain and heat sensors that humans have, therefore do not find heat or cold as bothersome as we might think. Cold doesn't hurt them as much as simply shut them down. When it gets too hot for them, like lizards in a desert, they must get in shade of a rock or plant, else they'll overheat and simply die!

That's what cold-blooded means. No significant ability to self-regulate body temperature! Some Dinos are believed to have actually been WARM blooded. Pretty groovy, eh?

Answer 2

Animals That Like Cold Weather

Answer 3

Cold blooded creatures naturally move in and out of the heat to maintain the temperature they prefer. They don't show signs of "discomfort" in the cold, but who knows what they are feeling. They slow down and become inactive when it is too cold; if they don't die, they will revive on being warmed up again, with no ill effects.
Once I put a honey bee (in a jar) into the refrigerator to slow it down and make it less active, so I could draw a picture of it. It didn't work. When I checked it a few minutes later, it was buzzing like crazy, keeping itself warm by exercise! I decided to let it go.

Answer 4

These animals are known as poikilotherms that is they do not generate there own body heat through biochemical process (the waste product being heat) or through muscle contraction or thermogenesis of fat/glucose. Instead they are reliant on the environment to provide the heat, think crocs sunbathing. The heat kick starts the metabolism of glucose through cellular respiration which produces ATP for muscle contraction and movement (think how freely your muscles move when you warm up before exercise), hence in cold weather they move very slowly or go into a state of stasis which could ultimately result in death, especially as digestion also comes to a halt in reptiles such as iguanas. Jeanette

Answer 5

Generally, when cold-blooded meet low temperature extremes, they either hibernate (like the fish and frogs who bury them selves in the mud on the bottom of the pong, river, or lake), or they die. I don't like cold weather either, but unlike the cold-bloods, I can turn on the heater. Which is why fish and such in aquariums and terrariums need to have heat in the winter.

Answer 6

cold-blooded creatures cannot adapt to a new enviroment, warm blooded can.
If it is a desert animal, it will die in the cold. If it is a cold-weather animal then it will die in the heat.

Answer 7

what animals don't like cold weather