Respiratory Water Exchange in Two Species of Porpoise
- 2 July 1965
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 149 (3679) , 86-88
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.149.3679.86
Abstract
Measurements of the respiratory water exchanges of Tursiops truncatus and Lagenorhynchus obli-quidens indicate that these species lose, respectively, only 30 and 77 percent as much water through evaporation as would terrestrial mammals of the same body weight. Control of temperature and pressure within the respiratory system and a lower ventilation rate account for this relatively small loss of water.This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:
- Quantitative Relations in the Physiological Constitutions of MammalsScience, 1949
- The respiration of the porpoise, tursiops truncatusJournal of Cellular and Comparative Physiology, 1941