Frostbitten Russian elephants 'given vodka'

[Jimbuna]

You'd have to read it to believe it :)


But they were warmed up by two cases of vodka mixed with warm water, one official was quoted as saying.
"They started roaring like if they were in the jungle! Perhaps, they were happy," the official told Russia's Ria Novosti news agency.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-20726939

[TarJak]

a bit of Russian anti-freeze never hurt noone.

[Dowly]

Well, Finnish LRRP soldiers during Winter War (and Continuation War I suppose),
carried small amounts of alcohol with them to fight the cold.

[Jimbuna]

I was always under the impression alcohol thinned the blood and had the opposite effect in cold weather conditions :o

[August]

I was always under the impression alcohol thinned the blood and had the opposite effect in cold weather conditions :o


You're right, it does. This story is nonsense.

[Jimbuna]

You're right, it does. This story is nonsense.

Thought I might have been experiencing a sober moment :)

[Takeda Shingen]

Alcohol makes you feel warmer by dialating blood vessels and thereby increasing blood flow near the skin's surface. The problem with that is that you are now having greater amounts of core heat leaving the body, ironically making one colder much faster.