{"id":477,"date":"2023-03-23T11:37:54","date_gmt":"2023-03-23T11:37:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fetchwebsites.net\/?p=477"},"modified":"2024-06-18T07:04:44","modified_gmt":"2024-06-18T07:04:44","slug":"avian-and-non-avian-reptiles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fetchwebsites.net\/index.php\/2023\/03\/23\/avian-and-non-avian-reptiles\/","title":{"rendered":"Avian and non-avian reptiles"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/fetchwebsites.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/chicken-badass.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-63 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fetchwebsites.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/chicken-badass.jpg 640w, https:\/\/fetchwebsites.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/chicken-badass-480x480.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 640px, 100vw\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p>Despite birds and reptiles looking different\u2026 they are actually a monophyletic group and share many features. Crocodiles are more closely related to birds than to other reptile groups!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are so many fascinating facts about these species&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00b7 They don\u2019t have oxytocin, they have vasotocin and mesotocin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00b7 They don\u2019t have neutrophils, they have heterophils.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00b7 Their red blood cells and platelets are nucleated (which can really confuse haematology analysers\u2026).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00b7 They don\u2019t have a diaphragm, and hypoventilate or are completely apnoeic under general anaesthesia. This is why a ventilator is routinely used in these species for general anaesthesia. Respiratory systems of birds and reptiles differ significantly to mammals, down to the microscopic level.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite birds and reptiles looking different\u2026 they are actually a monophyletic group and share many features. Crocodiles are more closely related to birds than to other reptile groups!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":63,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[47,49],"tags":[14,16,19,37,41],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fetchwebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fetchwebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fetchwebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fetchwebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fetchwebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=477"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fetchwebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4263,"href":"https:\/\/fetchwebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477\/revisions\/4263"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fetchwebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fetchwebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fetchwebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fetchwebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}