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Brown: How Boas Save Themselves From Suffocation When Constricting and Digesting Dinner
April 02, 2022
PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, April 2 (TNSJou) -- Brown University issued the following news release:

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Researchers from Brown University show how boa constrictors breathe with different sections of their rib cage, an adaptation that likely helped them evolve into successful predators.

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This won't bring much comfort to a boa constrictor's unlucky victims, but eating dinner puts the snake in a bit of a bind. The mechanics of squee . . .

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