Breath
Radiolab
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How to Breathe for a Bug
Bugs have these little holes all over them, like a poka dot, kind of outside. And they get the air and dus the oxygen into their bodies through these holes. So breathing for a bug is the equivalent of opening a window. When oxygen levels wirh 30 something %, the chance of a hungry cell in your body getting a meal has just gone up. If more cells can feed, then you can grow bigger and bigger and big and bigger. There's a dragon fly that had a wing span that's about two feet across. You could just lie on one and read a book as it like ip mes. It could be a bus you take to the next side
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