. Animal life as affected by the natural conditions of existence. Animal ecology. Fig. 57.—((, Ltqirrt, a swimming crab that breathes only in water ; b, Ocypoda, a marine crab which, easily suffocates in water. with a few other examples. He showed that the Ocypoda, which lives half its time on' land and in part breathes air (fig. 57, b), can easily be drowned if it is held in sea-water, which yet contains enough oxygen to allow a Lupea diacantha to recover itself perfectly when it has been almost killed by being kept in the air. It follows from this that the osmotic power of the respiratory de
. Animal life as affected by the natural conditions of existence. Animal ecology. Fig. 57.—((, Ltqirrt, a swimming crab that breathes only in water ; b, Ocypoda, a marine crab which, easily suffocates in water. with a few other examples. He showed that the Ocypoda, which lives half its time on' land and in part breathes air (fig. 57, b), can easily be drowned if it is held in sea-water, which yet contains enough oxygen to allow a Lupea diacantha to recover itself perfectly when it has been almost killed by being kept in the air. It follows from this that the osmotic power of the respiratory dermal surface is extremely different in the two animals, and that in the Ocypoda it is not great enough to extract the considerable amount of oxygen necessary to the. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Semper, C. (Carl), 1832-1893. New York, D. Appleton and Co.
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