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Written by llewelly on 2025-01-19 at 10:11

woke up listening to old episode of herphighlights, and they're explaining massive changes a snake's body goes through to digest a huge meal, including:

• Oxygen consumption can increase by as much as 44 times. Similar to the difference between a horse at rest and a horse at full gallop.

• Stomach ph drops from 7 to 1. (Snakes maintain near-neutral stomach ph when not digesting)

In a tangent starting about 27 minutes in.

https://herphighlights.podbean.com/e/039-an-appetite-for-arboreality/

[#]snakes

[#]reptiles

[#]eating

[#]digestion

[#]python

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