Avian blood

by **Pajarita** » Mon Apr 26, 2021 10:15 am

In truth, avian blood has not been studied enough but we do know a few very interesting things:

Avian Circulatory system:
http://people.eku.edu/ritchisong/birdcirculatory.html

Avian Hematology:
https://veteriankey.com/avian-hematolog ... d%20smears.

Avian erythrocytes have functional mitochondria, opening novel perspectives for birds as animal models in the study of ageing:
https://frontiersinzoology.biomedcentra ... 9994-10-33

Birds' blood functions as heating system in winter (but does it happen to all species? Because the study was done with temperate climate birds)
https://phys.org/news/2021-04-birds-blo ... inter.html