Pythons are a thunderstorm for their food habits. After repairing their deer with their bodies of Line, these massive snakes swallow all of the animal. NOW, researchers spent a new light on mobile procedures that allow them to digest their whole bones.
Studies, launched on July 9 in the Conference Biologio Conference and was published in the test journal, investigating the Burmese Pythons Speeds. Elder men can grow up to 10 to 3 meters of length, and their impressive size allowed them to feed on mammals and birds, including deer and AELLERs and allergators. Unlike other carnivores eating meat, snakes depend on animal bones as a calcium source. Finding all calcium available from the cosms, however, it can lead to the zeal for the food of the serpent. It is called HypertalCemia, which can lead to the conditions of the heart, high blood pressure, bone distractions, and kidney failure.
“We wanted to see how [pythons] They were able to process and reduce the largest calcium to the intestinal entries, “said Jerv-hervé Logot, the leading author and professor of Montpellier, in a statement.
To accomplish that, Lignot and colleaguous pythons are one food: General mice, rats without bone, or unhealthy rats. One group of snakes did not find any of these foods and instead led three weeks to provide basis. Three to six days in the background, researchers renew of a person and interfere with snakes to remove their small intestines.
They evaluated the ententics, or the heads of the intestine, pythons use bright and electronic microscopes in the side of the calcium and hormone ratings. This revealed a form of cells that have never been seen before producing large calcium particles, phosphorus and metal. These particles make Ligot “spelling properties.”
“The morphological analysis of the Piththelium Python is revealing some particles I have never seen in other vertebrates,” said Lignot. He and his colleagues find these particles within the internal “crypt” or a small package or cavity-of special special cells in the torrential cells. “Unlike normal elementes, these very little cells, with a short micrivilli [finger-like membrane protrusions]and have a strong lump on the crypt, “add.
Three different foods you eat was allowed for researchers to assess the functioning of these unique cells. On snakes that have eaten deer without fertilized, the ententocytes did not produce calcium particles and phosphosous – which are wealthy. For those who eat full mice or calcium-added, but cells’ Crypts are filled with large calcium particles, phosphorus and metal. This suggests that these cells play an important role in breaching Python’s spoil. The investigators did not receive the bones of snakes, ensuring that all the bones were completely digested and dissolved within their bodies.
Or started identified in the Burmese Pythons, this new cell varies is not the same. Since the first detection, researchers have found these special bone-agaya cells in other types of pythons, boas, and the gila monster, the sad start of the southwestern US and Mexico.
The findings seem to point to the unsafe system of mineral regulation in the pumping of the reptiles. However, this method may have reached other types of bone carnivores and, such as Shark and other marine attackers, the ampiatic mammals, or raptors such as Lignot. He told Gizmodo, hoping that this work would encourage other researchers to search for the cells just found in the animal government.
