An animated guide to breathing

As promised, this month’s infographic is packed with actual science. I decided to illustrate how different animals breathe, and I picked three species that I thought were particularly awesome. The topic really lends itself to a short looped GIF so that was an added plus. In other news, I’m getting my new computer this week! It’s going to be awesome working on something that can have more than one heavy-duty application running at once.

• Sources

• Freeman, Scott. Biological Science, 4th Edition. San Francisco: Pearson Education Inc., 2011., Harrison, Jon. Ventilatory Mechanism and Control in Grasshoppers Amer. Zool., 37:73-81 (1997), Ritchison, Gary. Avian Respiration. Course materials for Ornithology 554/754