What makes an animals fur warm?
Our cavemen ancestors had hairy bodies but in the cold weather they were not warm enough. They had not learned to weave cloth, but they were smart. They saw that cats and foxes kept warm because they had fur coats. So the sensible cavemen took furry animal skins and wore them as clothing to keep out the cold. People wore furry animal skins before the dawn of history. This was long before man learned to write. It was long before the human family learned how to weave cloth and make clothes of fabrics. For a long time, warm cloth was woven fron threads taken from furry animals. Cooler fabrics were woven from plant fibers. Cats and bunnies, camels and sheep and all fur coated animals are mammals. And all the mammals are warm blooded animals. Their bodies give off heat, ,just as ours do, and their skin is always warm to touch. But in the cold weather, this body warmth would get blown away by air if it were not for fur coats. A warm blooded animal. Needs to keep his body at a certain tempera
