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86: 474:, the indentations are very small. One study in 2007 concluded that prosauropods likely had abdominal and cervical air sacs, based on the evidence for them in sister taxa (theropods and sauropods). The study concluded that it was impossible to determine whether prosauropods had a bird-like flow-through lung, but that the air sacs were almost certainly present. A further indication for the presence of air sacs and their use in lung ventilation comes from a reconstruction of the air exchange volume (the volume of air exchanged with each breath) of 234:, the primary vocalization organ of songbirds. The portion of the neural pathways which control respiration during vocalization changes air sac pressure to control vocal intensity. The pressure in the interclavicular air sac is highly correlated with the fundamental frequency of birdsong in doves. Birdsong primarily occurs in expiration and therefore syllables and fundamental frequency are highly correlated with increased interclavicular air sac pressure. Changes in air sac pressure also affect the length of the 154:. The hollow air spaces in bird bones outside of the head are connected to the air sacs in a way that a bird with a blocked windpipe and a bone broken in a manner where the inside of the bone was connected to the outside world could still breathe. These pneumatic bones are less vascularized than non-pneumatic bones and many pneumatic bones have pneumatic foramina (openings for air passage). Skeletal pneumaticity often originates developmentally as offshoots of the air sacs, especially in the 246:(the sister group to true songbirds), birds have two different sources of sound around the trachea. At high air sac pressures, the two sound sources have different frequencies, while at low pressure they have the same frequency. The generation of bird trills involves modulation of the pressure in air sacs. Since so many aspects of birdsong depend on air sac pressure, there is a trade off between trill rate and the duration of each call, though this has not been studied in depth. 193: 130:. The air sacs themselves are either poorly vascularized or entirely avascular. No gas exchange occurs within them. There are five main air sacs in birds, three of which branch from the ventrobronchi, and two of which branch from the intrapulomonary bronchus connecting the dorsobronchi and ventrobronchi. The air sacs are usually paired, except for the clavicular air sac, creating a total of 9 air sacs. However, this morphology varies among bird species. Birds such as 255: 526: 408: 229:
and related birds, with some studies hypothesizing that the air sac may be involved as a resonating chamber. The pressure of air in the air sac is also heavily involved in song production, as different males singing the same song have similar modulations in air sac pressure. Changes in air pressure
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Dinosaur respiratory systems with bird-like air sacs may have been capable of sustaining higher activity levels than mammals of similar size and build can sustain. In addition to providing a very efficient supply of oxygen, the rapid airflow would have been an effective cooling mechanism, which is
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In birds, some temperature control occurs in the respiratory system. Water vapor heats cool air during inhalation in the trachea, and increases its humidity. The resulting evaporative water loss varies greatly and depends on several factors including air sac pressure and the subsequent rate of air
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between air sacs, with higher gradients causing more air to flow over the parabronchi during inhalation and lower gradients casing more air to flow over the parabronchi during exhalation. Different air sacs alternate contraction and expansion, causing air motion, the fundamental mechanism of avian
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stored in the respiratory system. In penguins, air sac volumes are constricted in deep dives to protect from the effects of water pressure. Penguins have been found inflating their air sacs before dives and exhale much of the air during the deepest point of their dives to change buoyancy while
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The uncinate processes are the small white spurs about halfway along the ribs. The rest of this diagram shows the air sacs and other parts of a bird's respiratory system:1 cervical air sac, 2 clavicular air sac, 3 cranial thoracal air sac, 4 caudal thoracal air sac, 5 abdominal air sac (5'
593:', with multiple air sacs and a flow-through lung. Furthermore, an avian system would only need a lung volume of about 600 liters while a mammalian one would have required about 2,950 liters, which would exceed the estimated 1,700 liters of space available in a 30-ton 894: 137:
In birds, gas exchange and volume change do not occur in the same place. While gas exchange occurs in the parabronchi in the lungs, the lungs do not change volume much during respiration. Instead, voluminous expansion occurs in the air sacs. These volume changes cause
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fossil on which they based much of their argument was severely flattened and therefore it was impossible to tell whether the liver was the right shape to act as part of a hepatic piston mechanism. Some recent papers simply note without further comment that Ruben
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could not have had a reptilian respiratory system, as its tidal volume would have been less than its dead-space volume, so that stale air was not expelled but was sucked back into the lungs. Likewise, a mammalian system would only provide to the lungs about
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of a 30-ton specimen would be about 184 liters. This is the total volume of the mouth, trachea and air tubes. If the animal exhales less than this, stale air is not expelled and is sucked back into the lungs on the following
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backwards, which makes the lungs expand to inhale; when these muscles relax, the lungs return to their previous size and shape, and the animal exhales. They also presented this as a reason for doubting that
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and respiratory systems would enable the reptile to achieve 50% to 70% of the oxygen flow of a mammal of similar size, and that lack of avian air sacs would not prevent the development of
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has argued that the evolution of the air sac system, which first appears in the very earliest dinosaurs, may have been in response to the very low (11%) atmospheric oxygen of the
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Avian lungs have a bronchial system in which the air flows through dorsobronchi into the parabronchi before exiting via the ventrobronchi. Gas exchange occurs at the parabronchi.
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dinosaurs. But this does not imply that ornithischians could not have had metabolic rates comparable to those of mammals, since mammals also do not have air sacs.
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1477:"Boundary Conditions for Heat Transfer and Evaporative Cooling in the Trachea and Air Sac System of the Domestic Fowl: A Two-Dimensional CFD Analysis" 242:. The pressure can change midpoint of the folds of the syrinx, an action which converts the higher pressure into higher frequencies. In a species of 2725: 462:, including the group traditionally called "prosauropods", may also have had air sacs. Although possible pneumatic indentations have been found in 258:
Birds' lungs obtain fresh air during both exhalation and inhalation, because the air sacs do all the "pumping" and the lungs simply absorb oxygen.
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Increase in respiratory capacity. This is probably the most common hypothesis, and fits well with the idea that many dinosaurs had fairly high
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From about 1870 onwards scientists have generally agreed that the post-cranial skeletons of many dinosaurs contained many air-filled cavities (
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II: an assessment of the range of motion of the limbs and vertebral column and of previous reconstructions using a digital skeletal mount"
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This article is about a component of dinosaur and bird skeletal systems. For the structures in mammalian lungs, see
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The avian respiratory system: a unique model for studies of respiratory toxicosis and for monitoring air quality
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are well known for the large number of air pockets in their bones (especially vertebra), although one theropod,
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Critics have claimed that, without avian air sacs, modest improvements in a few aspects of a modern reptile's
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have different air sac arrangements. The morphologies of the individual air sacs also vary among bird taxa.
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essential for animals that are active but too large to get rid of all the excess heat through their skins.
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the animal had: 904 liters if avian; 225 liters if mammalian; 19 liters if reptilian.
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are spaces within an organism where there is the constant presence of air. Among modern animals,
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As a cooling mechanism. It seems that air sacs and feathers evolved at about the same time in
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of the air sacs is related to the timing of all of the moving parts involved in respiration.
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225 − 184 = 41 liters of fresh, oxygenated air on each breath.
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Evidence of air sacs has also been found in theropods. Studies indicate that fossils of
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Three explanations have been suggested for the development of air sacs in dinosaurs:
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For a long time these cavities were regarded simply as weight-saving devices, but
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patterns are indicative of respiratory muscle activity and the airflow around the
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must therefore have had either a system unknown in the modern world or one like
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Researchers have presented evidence and arguments for air sacs in
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Diagram showing the general layout of air sacs in a bird
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argued against the presence of air sacs in dinosaurs.
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Improving balance and maneuvrability by lowering the
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Index

Air sacs
air sac (lung)
birds
dinosaurian
pneumatization
Theropods
Aerosteon
Sauropods
Deinocheirus

ventilation system
tetrapods
mammals
tidal ventilation
epithelial
secretory cells
elastin
connective tissues
parrots
pressure gradients
compliance
pneumatic bones
synsacrum
appendicular skeleton
penguins
loons

emperor penguin
diving birds
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