Friday, February 21, 2020

A cockroach can live for a week without its head.

Can you live without your head?
   
      You can't but a cockroach can live without his head for a week.

cockroach can live for a week without its head. Due to their open circulatory system, and the fact that they breathe through little holes in each of their body segments, they are not dependent on the mouth or head to breathe. The roach only dies because without a mouth, it can't drink water and dies of thirst.

 How?

After you cut their heads off, very often their necks would seal off just by clotting.
             
            The hardy vermin breathe through spiracles, or little holes in each body segment. Plus, the roach brain does not control this breathing and blood does not carry oxygen throughout the body. Rather, the spiracles pipe air directly to tissues through a set of tubes called tracheae.

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