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My experience with turtles is confined to reef diving. Turtles are unusual in that they are extremely tolerant of hypoxia. It may be that they have adapted to
by killjoywashere 6y ago
My experience with turtles is confined to reef diving.
Turtles are unusual in that they are extremely tolerant of hypoxia. It may be that they have adapted to a relatively shallow network that doesn't parse much, but is pretty good at extracting the most meaningful features (oxygen/energy efficiency favored over information efficiency)
I wonder if this patterns persists for other reptiles.
- nullcat 6y agoI think it's unrelated. You could say dolphins and whales are "tolerant of hypoxia", yet from their behavior and the layout of their brains it is evident that evolution has not limited "information efficiency" in exchange for "tolerance to hypoxia".
- ardy42 6y ago> I think it's unrelated. You could say dolphins and whales are "tolerant of hypoxia", yet from their behavior and the layout of their brains it is evident that evolution has not limited "information efficiency" in exchange for "tolerance to hypoxia". Not all species will make the same tradeoffs or converge on the same solutions, though.
- neonological 6y agoUsually though if a tradeoff doesn't exist then it doesn't happen. In this case, most likely it's not a tradeoff that's going on it's just parallel lines of evolution.
- locotower 6y agoIt's possible that there are other corollary markers that make a trade off possible in one situation and not possible in other situations.