Sea SnakesKrieger Publishing Company, 1999 - 148 sivua This text describes the varieties and distribution of sea snakes, what they eat and what eats them, how they reproduce and grow, and how they cope with excess salt and scarcity of freshwater. It also discusses how they adjust to diving at depth, and describes the nature of their venom. |
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... breath- hold capacity for a non - aquatic bird or mammal , then a reptile should be able to go without breathing for nearly 15 minutes . Indeed most land reptiles do not breathe regularly but intersperse breaths with variable , short ...
... breath- hold capacity for a non - aquatic bird or mammal , then a reptile should be able to go without breathing for nearly 15 minutes . Indeed most land reptiles do not breathe regularly but intersperse breaths with variable , short ...
Sivu 77
... breathing at the surface . The second was that they might reduce their total energy use , and oxygen demands , by lowering their metabolic rate below that of land reptiles . Of course a combination of both could occur . What , in fact ...
... breathing at the surface . The second was that they might reduce their total energy use , and oxygen demands , by lowering their metabolic rate below that of land reptiles . Of course a combination of both could occur . What , in fact ...
Sivu 88
... breathing ( breathing tachycardia ) rather than a slowing of heartbeat during diving . Put another way , the low rate of heartbeat of a sea snake is its ' normal ' heart rate and it increases it above normal during breathing . In ...
... breathing ( breathing tachycardia ) rather than a slowing of heartbeat during diving . Put another way , the low rate of heartbeat of a sea snake is its ' normal ' heart rate and it increases it above normal during breathing . In ...
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PREFACE | 1 |
The Kinds of Sea Snakes 5 Origin and Evolution of Sea Snakes | 8 |
Regional Distributions | 18 |
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