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When diving, their heart rate decreases to 60 beats per minute, half its normal pace, and blood flow is directed more towards the brain. A beaver's body also has a high tolerance for carbon dioxide. When surfacing, the animal can replace 75 percent of the air in its lungs in one breath, compared to 15 percent for a human. [31] [38]
The animal species involved were almost invariably either domesticated ones (most often pigs, bulls, horses, donkeys, mules and cows, for secular courts) or pests such as rats and weevils for ecclesiastical courts. [2] [3] In contrast, "wild beasts, like wolves or bears, were never subject to such legal action… ." [4]
1722 German woodcut of a werewolf transforming. Popular shapeshifting creatures in folklore are werewolves and vampires (mostly of European, Canadian, and Native American/early American origin), ichchhadhari naag (shape-shifting cobra) of India, shapeshifting fox spirits of East Asia such as the huli jing of China, the obake of Japan, the Navajo skin-walkers, and gods, goddesses and demons and ...
Taxon Type Named for Notes Ref Gigantactis gargantua Bertelsen, Pietsch & Lavenberg, 1981: Anglerfish: Gargantua [18]†Gargantuavis Buffetaut & Le Loeuff, 1998 Bird: Gargantua A genus of fossil flightless birds from the Cretaceous of Europe, and the largest known birds of the Mesozoic era; "generic name from Gargantua, the giant of French folklore made famous by François Rabelais, and avis ...
Reachisey is a mythical animal, with the head of a lion, a short elephantine trunk, and the scaly body of a dragon. It occurs at Angkor Wat in the epic bas reliefs of the outer gallery. Rompo is a mythological beast with the head of a hare, the ears of a human, a mane, a slender body, the front arms of a badger, and the rear legs of a bear. It ...
The Edo period (江戸時代, Edo jidai), also known as the Tokugawa period (徳川時代, Tokugawa jidai), is the period between 1600 or 1603 and 1868 [1] in the history of Japan, when the country was under the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate and some 300 regional daimyo, or feudal lords.
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