Capitolo 75
lepidosiren has been expeditious alive to Europe, incorporated in them disposition
covering. Here the strange fish is mainly appreciated as a zoological
the curiosity for aquariums, because of his/her gills that possess and bellows
together, to be all right him/it for his/her double existence; but the not sophisticated
Africans of the west the grub it on on them really account as a delicacy, despite everything
of his/her applications to the scientific consideration as the first known ancestor
of terrestrial animals and entirely existing. Now, the torpid state of the
mud-fish in his/her ball hardened of clay resembles to from near the truth or
the supposed condition of the I toad-in-a-puncture; but with a main point
exception. The mud-fish leaves a small channel or you/he/she plays the open pipe in his/her cell to
or it ends to admit the air to breathe, although he breathes (as me
it will proceed to explain) in an a lot of disdains degree during his/her aestivation;
while every toad-in-a-hole corrected owes from all the accounts to live
entirely without both food or inhaling some way. However, this
it is a mere detail; and indeed, if I toad-in-a-puncture it exists at all really,
we lately owe in every probability it admits that they breathes to some
extension, although perhaps very slightly, during their long immurement.
And this conducts above us to consider what is in hibernation of reality.
Each knows today, I suppose, that is a very near analogy
among an animal and a vaporize-motor. Food is the fuel that does the
animal motor goes; and this food involves ago as almost precisely coal in the
artificial car. But coal won't drive alone a motor; a free
draught of open air is also forced to produce the combustion.
Only the food that we eat cannot likewise be used for driving ours
muscles and the other organs unless you/he/she is provisioned with oxygen by the air
to slowly burn him/it in our bodies. This oxygen is taken in the
system, in all the tallest animals from he/she wants to say of bellows or gills. Now, when us