Mysterious Animal Physiology

Spis treci
From the Author ........................................................................................ 7
Electrical potential as a manifestation of cell life ....................... 9
Death determining the life .................................................................... 13
Autophagy as a cell survival tool ........................................................ 17
Sensory brain maps .................................................................................. 20
Ammon’s horn – memory creator ...................................................... 24
Can the brain regenerate? ..................................................................... 27
What do animals dream about? .......................................................... 30
Simulant opossum .................................................................................... 34
Dogs detect cancers .................................................................................. 36
Elephants hear from afar ....................................................................... 40
Seeing the world in colors ..................................................................... 43
Glowing wolf eyes ..................................................................................... 46
Hormone of darkness .............................................................................. 49
Automatic heart ......................................................................................... 53
Why sperm whales do not suffer from decompression sickness? ............................................................ 57
Specifics of bird respiration .................................................................. 60
Why is the blood red? ............................................................................. 63
Hemoglobin – blood gas transporter ................................................ 67
To eat or not to eat? .................................................................................. 70
Energy of food – condition of survival ............................................. 74
Leptin – obesity hormone ..................................................................... 77
Live bioreactors ......................................................................................... 80
Newspaper fed goats ............................................................................... 84
Selenium – the lunar element .............................................................. 87
Why do small animals live shorter? .................................................. 90
Why do deer antlers grow so fast? ..................................................... 94
Repair cells of the skeletal muscle ..................................................... 97
“Bodybuilders” in the animal world .................................................. 100
Adapting a horse to the effort .............................................................. 103
Wintertime sleepers ................................................................................ 107
Newly born piglets are shivering ....................................................... 110
Dog with hanging tongue ...................................................................... 113
Hot hogs ........................................................................................................ 115
Cold legs of penguins ............................................................................... 117
These wonderful coolers ....................................................................... 119
Life saving water ........................................................................................ 121
“Kissing” hormones ................................................................................. 125
What is the maternal diagnosis of pregnancy? ............................. 127
Prolonged pregnancy ............................................................................... 130
Biological birth clock ............................................................................... 133
The mammary gland – larder of the newborn mammal .......... 136
This wonderful first food ....................................................................... 141