What is something in the past year that makes you happy or proud? Maybe you learned something new, finally got that thing you wanted for ages, managed to make a hard decision with a good outcome. etc etc.
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its thier respiratory system, very efficient at getting oxygen, but it also means thier susceptible to any volatiles chemicals.
Bird respiration is very different than ours. It is much more efficient since there is such a high energy and oxygen requirement to fly, but they also don’t have a diaphragm to fill or expel their lungs.
Instead they have a series of air sacs spaced out in their bodies and they have to flex their muscles like pumping a bellows system to pump air through themselves.
With small lungs, low body weight, yet a massive air intake for their body mass, that makes them much more vulnerable to anything damaging in the air. We don’t even spray the surface cleaner directly into their enclosures, we spray the paper towel and bring it over to the incubators.