A group of international scientists has revealed the unique cells in the mucous membrane of the Burmese python's intestines, allowing them to completely digest the prey bone. About this Write Survive.
Burma (Python Bivittatus) eat birds and small mammals, swallow and digest the whole production. They spend a few days digesting before you go hunting again, and breaks even prey bones, giving yourself the necessary amount of calcium.
We want to understand how they manage to handle such a huge amount of calcium absorbed through the intestinal wall, he explained to the company's company studied from the University of Montpellier University in France Zhean -ere Ligno.
To find out exactly the solid processing process, have investigated them of different foods. One of the diets containing all common pyatons in the entire prey, the second includes bait -free prey and third – produced without bones with separate calcium additives.
Therefore, scientists have discovered that specialized cells in the mucous membrane of the intestine are responsible for bone digestion. In Pythons, they have eaten completely or without bone, but with calcium, these cells contain particles including calcium, iron and phosphorus. At the same time, the snakes are only raised by bait without bones, these particles do not have.
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