Insulation 7 Living Shoes & Fat – FT

POLAR BEAR FEET: Polar bears have amazing feet. They are built for cold and bigness. Their paws can be how wide?

POLAR BEAR FEET: Polar bears can swim 100 miles in insanely cold waters and can travel 4500 MILES in one season.

POLAR BEAR FEET: The polar bear has special black pads on the bottom of his big feet with thousands of golfball-sized papillae on them that stick up like mushy long balloons.  

POLAR BEAR FEET: The polar bear even has little crevasses on the bottom of his pads which mop up extra water so his feet don’t slip. 

POLAR BEAR FEET: Polar bears’ paws are covered with dense fur and fat to keep his paws warm.

BROWN FAT: There are two main kinds of fat, white and brown fat. Their abbreviations are WAT, white connective tissue, and BAT, brown connective tissue.

BROWN FAT: Brown fat is the fat you are used to. It’s on us and on chickens.

BROWN FAT: As the ruby-throated hummingbird prepares of its non-stop 500-mile flight over the Gulf of Mexico, it busily stores energy reserves for the amazing flight in white fat.

BROWN FAT: White fat is the kind of fat that bears store their energy in that they’ll use for hibernation. White fat is for more extreme situations.

BROWN FAT: Brown fat is heavier than white fat, contains more nutrients and has much more blood piping running through it.