Dr. Melissa Ilardo

They also harvest seaweed sometimes.

And they actually collect a lot of sea cucumbers, which they dry out in the sun and then eat later.

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Yeah, so we started thinking about, okay, you know, for natural selection to act in this population, it needs some kind of physical trait to act on, which got us looking at the dive reflex or the mammalian dive reflex.

Yeah, so we started thinking about, okay, you know, for natural selection to act in this population, it needs some kind of physical trait to act on, which got us looking at the dive reflex or the mammalian dive reflex.

Yeah, so we started thinking about, okay, you know, for natural selection to act in this population, it needs some kind of physical trait to act on, which got us looking at the dive reflex or the mammalian dive reflex.

Yeah, so we started thinking about, okay, you know, for natural selection to act in this population, it needs some kind of physical trait to act on, which got us looking at the dive reflex or the mammalian dive reflex.

So this is if anyone, and again, I hesitate to tell people to do this, but if you hold your breath and put your face in a bowl full of cold water, your body responds as if you're diving. And what that means is that your heart rate slows down.

So this is if anyone, and again, I hesitate to tell people to do this, but if you hold your breath and put your face in a bowl full of cold water, your body responds as if you're diving.

So this is if anyone, and again, I hesitate to tell people to do this, but if you hold your breath and put your face in a bowl full of cold water, your body responds as if you're diving. And what that means is that your heart rate slows down.

So this is if anyone, and again, I hesitate to tell people to do this, but if you hold your breath and put your face in a bowl full of cold water, your body responds as if you're diving. And what that means is that your heart rate slows down.

And what that means is that your heart rate slows down.

Your blood vessels and your extremities constrict because, you know, your fingers will be okay with a little bit less oxygen, but your brain really needs that oxygen. So it's keeping the blood central where you need it the most. And then your spleen contracts. And so the spleen certainly wasn't the first organ that I thought about when thinking about diving. But the spleen is a reservoir.

Your blood vessels and your extremities constrict because, you know, your fingers will be okay with a little bit less oxygen, but your brain really needs that oxygen. So it's keeping the blood central where you need it the most. And then your spleen contracts. And so the spleen certainly wasn't the first organ that I thought about when thinking about diving. But the spleen is a reservoir.

Your blood vessels and your extremities constrict because, you know, your fingers will be okay with a little bit less oxygen, but your brain really needs that oxygen. So it's keeping the blood central where you need it the most. And then your spleen contracts. And so the spleen certainly wasn't the first organ that I thought about when thinking about diving. But the spleen is a reservoir.

Your blood vessels and your extremities constrict because, you know, your fingers will be okay with a little bit less oxygen, but your brain really needs that oxygen.

So it's keeping the blood central where you need it the most.