Imagine spending the winter months stark naked in a damp, frozen woodland environment.  It’s a chilling prospect, is it not?  One that dwarfs any self-described Polar Bear Club’s seconds-long winter swim.  But there is a creature, native to Long Island, which does just that.  This species is no 100+ pound, hairy mass of endothermic (warm-blooded) protoplasm dressed in a Speedo, but rather, an ectothermic (cold-blooded) critter weighing in at less than a quarter ounce, that endures this wintry imprisonment unclad and unconscious.  It spends the winter barely protected, perhaps under a log or burrowed beneath the leaf litter.