Sunday, October 25, 2020

Tumblr Thread: Why Frogs Have Got Weird Bones


Apparently frogs flop around so much it wouldn't be worth it for them to have rib cages. And in conjunction with that, they don't breath the same way something with a ribcage might. It'd be nice to have less bones to break. Tumblr can get way into animal anatomy, like this thread about horse sizes being ridiculous.

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Skeleton - snakegay i hate looking at frog skeletons what do they think theyre doing with that fucking anatomy. all amphibians are kind of like this but frogs are just like,. ma'am you have a criminally small amount of bones supporting your slop

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Text - magistrate-of-mediocrity Frogs basically don't have ribs because when they hop they just fucking belly flop onto the ground. Evolution never got around to giving them ribs because it wouldn't be worth the broken ribs every time the frogs decided to go out on land. As a result, the intercostal muscles responsible for breathing in most vertebrates never developed. Frogs (and most amphibians) rely almost solely on buccal pumping for

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Text - breathing: They lower the floor of their mouths which draws in air through their nostrils. Then they raise the floor of their mouths to force air into their lungs. It's not super efficient because used air is mixed with fresh air in the mouth during every breath. But frogs also exchange gases through their skin as well so super sophisticated breathing apparatuses aren't exactly worth the developmental cost. kaijutegu Frogs are just stomachs with enough legs to throw themselves at food. Th

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