Yet cold blooded animals survive just fine. This is easy for warm- blooded animals, such as humans, because they have the ability to maintain their body temperature. To survive, no matter the weather outside, they all need temperature-sensitive bodily reactions to work. Just so, can cold blooded animals survive in the cold? Lizards and snakes will burrow down into the earth. Frogs will bury themselves in the mud at the bottom of streams or ponds. They become sleepy and, eventually, totally inactive. Larger ' cold- blooded' animals, such as lizards and frogs, find their bodies becoming colder and colder as winter approaches.