How do girraffes breathe??

Subject: How do girraffes breathe??

Date: Sun Dec 27 14:58:59 1998
Posted by Mike Langley
Grade level: grad (science)
School: Aberdeen University/ Intensive Care Unit
City: Aberdeen State/Province: Grampian
Country: Scotland
Area of science: Medicine
ID: 914792339.Me

Message:


How do girraffes breathe or more to the point, how do they 
ventilate their dead space!  Do they generate massive tidal 
volumes, and if so, how?  Or do they have another trick? If I 
took an arterial sample of blood from one of these long necked 
fellows, how much CO2 would I find?

Nice beasts but what a strange design!!

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