Why is the heartbeat of whales as a surprise to scientists?
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the Blue whale is the largest animal that ever lived on our planet
A Team of biologists who study marine life, conducted a series of studies devoted to the study of the largest creatures on the planet — . The results of the study surprised experts because it turned out that the huge animal is able to live just with two heart beats per minute. In order to obtain the desired result, marine biologists had to attach to a whale suction cups and a special heart rate monitor that constantly spent measuring the heart rate of the animal. What more learned scholars and what facts surprised them?
the biggest heart on Earth
The Blue whale is representative of the largest animal ever to live on planet Earth. An adult blue whale has a length of up to 33 feet away and, in order to provide adequate blood supply to such a large body of the animal is required strong and large in size . There are versions that the heart of a blue whale weighs about 180 pounds and looks like a Golf cart.
According to the magazine , during the research, the largest living creature on Earth nirala to a depth of from 30 to 200 meters, periodically replenishing your lungs with air, and the stomach food. It is known that during deep dives with the goal , the heart rate of a whale is sharply reduced. Thus, if the surface of the water heart of the animal is reduced to 34 times per minute, in the deep waters of the figure is just 2 beats per minute.
Scientists have long found that the blue whale's heart rate must slow down significantly in depth in order to reallocate the consumption of oxygen by cells throughout the body. When air-breathing mammals dive underwater, their bodies automatically begin to direct the oxygen so that the heart and brain received more oxygen than other organs. This restructuring helps the animal a long time to go without oxygen under water, resulting in a significant slowing of the heart.
To confirm the change of a pulse of a blue whale during a dive, the experts put on one of the largest mammals on the planet a special sensor that registers the heart rate of the world's largest heart. A unique study was conducted for 9 hours, during which the whale then submerged to a depth, then rise to the surface. Falling to its minimum value, this sharp decline in the heart rate of the animal was due to stretching of the aortic artery of a whale, which was slowly reduced in order to keep the blood enriched with oxygen moves through the body of the animal.
Heart of a whale weighs about 180 pounds
To return to the surface, the heart rate of a blue whale is sharply accelerated to 25-37 beats per minute, and the heart begins to quickly provide the necessary dose of oxygen to the entire body. Scientists believe that heart rate is a natural physiological limit for an animal of this size. Perhaps for this reason, on our planet no other species of animal, which could at least slightly exceed the size of the largest mammal on the planet.
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