Meanings
- uncountableA method of ventilation used in respiration accomplished by expanding and contracting the entire throat in a rhythmic manner that is externally apparent.
Amphibians breathe in, in part, through positive pressure gular pumping.
2005, Stephen J. Divers, Douglas R. Mader, Reptile Medicine and Surgery, →ISBN3 more examples
Gular pumping also is increased significantly in response to airborne beef odor as compared to control (distilled water) odor (Weldon et al., 1990).
1992, Carl Gans, David Crews, Hormones, Brain, and Behavior, →ISBN, page 468Also unlike turtles, crocodylians close their nostrils and do not exhibit gular pumping when submerged, so underwater olfaction is unlikely (Bellairs and Shute, 1953; Weldon and Ferguson, 1993; Bellairs, 1971, in Weldon and Ferguson, 1993).
2008, J. G. M. Thewissen, Sirpa Nummela, Sensory Evolution on the Threshold, →ISBN, page 71The olfactory epithelium is ventilated during normal respiration and, because crocodylians are intermittent breathers (Chapter 7), particularly by gular pumping.
2015, Gordon Grigg, David Kirshner, Biology and Evolution of Crocodylians, →ISBN, page 192
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