Post by Weasel on Jul 9, 2004 4:58:03 GMT -5
Well, since FB locked the other thread on smoking right as I was about to ADD this. Here goes:
Yager, In all truth,(assuming you weren't joking) I would try to keep any and all smoke away from the bird. Their lungs and air sacs are much more delicate than ours and need to be at full capacity to operate properly. I don't know if you have studied the airway systems of birds but they have multiple chambers inside the body. This is to get the oxegen dirctly to the source that needs them the most.
I copied this paragraph off of a respiratory mechanics site
" Most birds have 9 air sacs:
one interclavicular sac
two cervical sacs
two anterior thoracic sacs
two posterior thoracic sacs
two abdominal sacs
Gas exchange in the lung is continuous throughout the process, with one half the inspired volume of any given breath being "processed" at any given moment to extract oxygen. This setup amounts to a "flow through" system, and rather than the in and out breathing cycle we have, birds respire more or less continuously. This has great importance because flight demands an enormous amount of oxygen exchange, far more than is needed for terrestrial locomotion, and the respiratory system of birds is very efficient at providing it. This is due only in part to the "bellows" action of the air sacs; it depends in great measure on the presence of a "countercurrent flow" mechanism for gas exchange in the lung proper"
If you can tell, these birds have no room for error in the way of breathing. To add smoke would only cause problems. I am a smoker and so did quite a bit of research on this recently to find out what kind of problems could occur. Besides the fact of not breathing as efficiently, they will become more prone to asper and other such respiratory diseases.
Yager, In all truth,(assuming you weren't joking) I would try to keep any and all smoke away from the bird. Their lungs and air sacs are much more delicate than ours and need to be at full capacity to operate properly. I don't know if you have studied the airway systems of birds but they have multiple chambers inside the body. This is to get the oxegen dirctly to the source that needs them the most.
I copied this paragraph off of a respiratory mechanics site
" Most birds have 9 air sacs:
one interclavicular sac
two cervical sacs
two anterior thoracic sacs
two posterior thoracic sacs
two abdominal sacs
Gas exchange in the lung is continuous throughout the process, with one half the inspired volume of any given breath being "processed" at any given moment to extract oxygen. This setup amounts to a "flow through" system, and rather than the in and out breathing cycle we have, birds respire more or less continuously. This has great importance because flight demands an enormous amount of oxygen exchange, far more than is needed for terrestrial locomotion, and the respiratory system of birds is very efficient at providing it. This is due only in part to the "bellows" action of the air sacs; it depends in great measure on the presence of a "countercurrent flow" mechanism for gas exchange in the lung proper"
If you can tell, these birds have no room for error in the way of breathing. To add smoke would only cause problems. I am a smoker and so did quite a bit of research on this recently to find out what kind of problems could occur. Besides the fact of not breathing as efficiently, they will become more prone to asper and other such respiratory diseases.
