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Uricotelism is the
excretion of
excess nitrogen in the form of uric acid.
Uricotelic animals include insects,
birds and most reptiles.
Though requiring more...
- habitats. Some
desert mammals are also
uricotelic, so
since practically all
known mammals are ureotelic,
uricotelic adaptation is a
likely result of convergence...
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phenomenon termed gigantothermy. Like
other reptiles,
dinosaurs are
primarily uricotelic, that is,
their kidneys extract nitrogenous wastes from
their bloodstream...
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extinct moa and
elephant birds. Like the reptiles,
birds are
primarily uricotelic, that is,
their kidneys extract nitrogenous waste from
their bloodstream...
- dioxide,
ammonia (in ammoniotelics), urea (in ureotelics), uric acid (in
uricotelics),
guanine (in Arachnida), and creatine. The
liver and
kidneys clear many...
- can be
excreted in
solid state, with very
little water. This so-called
uricotelic excretory mode
represents an
adjustment to life on land and the ****ociated...
- lost due to the
osmotic stress of the arid environment.
Ostriches are
uricotelic,
excreting nitrogen in the form of uric acid and
related derivatives....
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hypertonic for such animals. Many arid
species of
reptiles and
hibernating uricotelic species allow major elevations of
plasma osmolarity (e.g. > 400 mOsm/L)...
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water and solutes. Like
other birds, the
common raven is
considered a
uricotelic organism with an
osmoregulatory system consisting of a pair of kidneys...
