The Filter Behind Penguin Seawater
White salt streaks can form near a penguin's beak after a drink, a small visual clue that seawater is not poison to this bird but a managed chemical load. The hardware is biological. Above each eye, a supraorbital salt gland begins the cleanup before the ocean's sodium chloride can disrupt fluid balance.This is no party trick. As seawater enters the body, dissolved ions move through circulation, a...More
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