Temperature Adaptation in Northern Breeds by Ted Greenlee

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Since we left the Pacific Northwest and moved to Florida with our Samoyeds, I have frequently been asked how they tolerated the heat in this climate. The question usually produced my "five minute lecture" on Northern Dogs in the South. When I repeated this jist of this lecture to Doris and Harold McLaughlin recently, they requested that I write a short paper discussing how Northern dogs adapt to varying temperatures. This discussion actually revolves around at least two scientific works on the ability of arctic animals – seals, whales and Northern dogs among others – to stand exceedingly low temperatures, and on the methods of heat exchange in dogs......