Timeline for How could an organism store a massive amount of water?
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| Sep 12, 2017 at 14:13 | comment | added | Daishozen | @somebody Yeah, that's what I'm thinking.That is how I would do a separate water organ anyway. | |
| Sep 12, 2017 at 9:19 | comment | added | Cees Timmerman | @somebody 1/1e6 humans have two complete pairs of kidneys | |
| Sep 12, 2017 at 8:42 | comment | added | somebody | @Daishozen so basically a second set of kidneys, but just finding water out instead of water and waste | |
| Sep 11, 2017 at 19:28 | comment | added | Daishozen | @EnderLook Or just have the water absorbed in the intestines like we have normally, but instead of wherever it normally goes in us it goes to the bladder. Maybe have a kidney type organ that cleans the water of trace minerals and other organic material before it gets to the bladder. | |
| Sep 11, 2017 at 19:25 | comment | added | Daishozen | @EnderLook I am currently thinking that the osmosis style esophagus would probably be best. They drink the orange juice, it bypasses the lungs as normal, and as it slides down the esophagus the water is absorbed one molecule at a time, while the rest of it goes to the stomach. Then having a redundancy backup in the slower-moving intestines to get what the esophagus missed. | |
| Sep 11, 2017 at 19:23 | comment | added | Ender Look | I was thinking in your idea but I note something quite strange: What would happend if the creature drink for example orange juice? It has water so it goes to the second stomach but it has organic matter and that would star rotting inside. Also even if it drinks normal water, How the creature would "clean" the second stomach from slighty dirty water? Water isn't 100% H2O, it contains some minerals. | |
| Sep 11, 2017 at 19:05 | history | edited | Daishozen | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Sep 11, 2017 at 19:05 | comment | added | jdunlop | Marine mammals get their water supply from the food they consume (since consuming seawater would not be a good way to go about it). If the water were then excreted into a bladder, that would work fine for Daishozen's idea. Side note: when you - or an animal - is eating, air and food are not interleaved and separated; when you have a mouthful of food, no air makes it to your lungs. | |
| Sep 11, 2017 at 19:01 | comment | added | Daishozen | @EnderLook That is what I was thinking, I will adjust my answer for more in-depth of how I would do that. | |
| Sep 11, 2017 at 19:00 | comment | added | Ender Look | With the second paragraph are you saying that water could be splited from food like food is splited from air? I mean, from the mouth you could get Air, Food and Water, when their reach the Pharynx, the Air is sent to the Larying (lungs) and the others two to the Esophagus (stomach), Are you saying that I shall make a third path to the water? | |
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| Sep 11, 2017 at 18:53 | history | answered | Daishozen | CC BY-SA 3.0 |