• Question: What are goosebumps and can you get them on your face?

    Asked by Pizza to Jos, Kate, Lisa on 20 Nov 2014.
    • Photo: Kate Dobson

      Kate Dobson answered on 20 Nov 2014:

      Goosebumps are a response to cold or fear. When birds are cold they fluff up their feathers and you pets fluff up their coats to make them selves look bigger and scarier. In evolutionary terms it’s the same thing: we may have gone bald and lost the hair, but the response that makes us try and unsuate ourselves still kicks in.

    • Photo: Lisa Simmons

      Lisa Simmons answered on 21 Nov 2014:

      Can’t add anything else to Kate’s answer

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