Why do parkas have fur linings around their hoods?
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almost all of the answers are correct about wind stoping. but the main reason is this : in sever cold condition face skin will be more sensitive and if the hood has no fur it can hurt your face like a blade. plus in case of stormy  condition , nothing can seal between your face and the parka hood better that fur because it is not too tight in your face but in the same time in stops the snow and ice from getting into your neck and head pretty good.\nanouther thing is that it really feels warm and comfy.\n               have fun:D
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They can hunker down in deep grasses. The snow and grass act as insulation keeping them warm.\n\nWhat's cooler (pun intended) than this is to look at tree squirrels, who have nests high in trees open to the blowing wind. Even they stay warm while being that exposed. The nests help trap body heat while breaking the wind.\n\nNature has some remarkable methods to keep animals warm.
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Because they have fur or feathers.
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Must be for style as I was noticing that each snowboarder's pants got lower the farther they were down the halfpipe.\n\nMaybe the baggy clothes act as a parachute slowing their descent allowing for more twists while in the air.
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Its their feathers keeping them warm, but havent you been wondering about something else?\n\nWhy is it that ducks feet dont freeze to the ice?? Huh??? :p
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the only reason they are kept out is to keep their tempreture.\nany way, its just any other part of the body, just take care of it :)
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to keep them warm\ncamouflage against enemies\nused as a show(display 4 mates or bluff fighting)
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I think if the coat was shiny to reflect the sun it might. If you wrap a cooler in a coat the stuff inside will keep cold longer.\n\nI know people wear sarapes (which are kind of like coats) in the desert, it helps keep them cool.
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General consensus on this question is that all sensitive areas that require protection from the cold typically grow hair.  The more the body loses heat from that area, the more hair there is.  (Which is why you have a full head of hair!)
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Because the want to give the appearance of being gentlemen.It is an indoor sport so that qualifies the use of coats and ties as proper wear.
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On my team--(in the USA) we do that too. It is only b/c we do not want out pants to get wet, because after we are dried off at the end and going home (esp. in the winter) we want our pants dry. It is very uncomfortable otherwise. On top it is okay, bc we put another jacket over it. We don't always have time to change clothes or bring another pair so that is just the way we do it.
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One difference we have in comparison with a lot of other mammals is that we have a lot of sweat glands in our skin. They help to prevent our bodies from overheating, especially during exercise. As sweat cooling your body works best if the air on your skin can move easily (and especially if a breeze of air is blowing) I would guess that fur/hair would decrease the efficiency of this cooling system a lot. As humans are supposed to have evolved in warm areas of Afrika, protection from cold was not an issue for keeping hair. And protection from sunburn - as a upright walking species we kept our hair on the place where sunburn would be most of a problem. \nThat's my guess, so that may not be true, but I read not too long ago that sweating allows humans to exercise much longer without overheating than a lot of animals (and so hunt an animal to its heat exhaustion, despite if may be able to run faster), if you look up these studies you may find more.\nPS. I found at least one source for that theory, I added it below
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hairs are to keep you warm. You lose a high percentage of heat from the top of your head, thereby you have lots of hair to cover it. Hairs on legs stand up to help when your cold. Unfortunatly hair on my head needs gel
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Simply fashion, theres no technical reason for it. \n\nHave to say the subject of this book of yours sounds a little bit dodgy...
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According to this website on llamas it's called a coat.
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tradition\njust like when they hit their sticks against the goalie's pads \nafter he makes a good save. that was originally done to make the pads bigger, because when they were made of leather in the earlie days, htey would shrink after absorbing water(from the ice)
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In addition to its fur color and thickness, the Arctic fox (Alopex lagopus) shows a combination of adaptations to cold climates that reflects "Allen's Rule".\nThis is basically an ecogeographical rule that states that homeotherm animals living at higher latitudes have shorter extremities (limbs, tail, ears, snout, etc) than their counterparts from warmer regions. \nYou could list these adaptations and explain their relationships with the environment. \n\nCheck here \nhttp://www.osee.org/interactions/Meanders.html \nfor an interesting discussion of this (scroll down to the heading "Animal Rules: the Ecogeographical Connection") .\n\nA different adaptation (that seemingly contradicts Allen's rule) is the possession of relatively large feet, which apparently enable this species to exert lower footloads on the soft substrate (snow). Here's a scientific publication that discusses this adaptation:\nhttp://people.trentu.ca/dennismurray/pdf/Murray%20and%20Lariviere%202002.pdf\n\nHope this helps :-)