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Перевод: gills

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1. They jerk from side to side and rub themselves on the plants, but there is no redness or inflammation of the gills.
2. The massive head, still with the marks at the side of the throat where the gills would have been, sighed.
3. The axolotl, the tadpole of the South American tiger salamander, is famous in the zoology textbooks for breaking with tradition and possessing the capacity to reproduce sexually while still retaining its aquatic larval form, including its external gills.
4. Its blue eyes swivel sadly and its red gills flap in terminal gasps.
5. The traces of these appendages are preserved in exceptional circumstances, so we do know that trilobites had walking legs gills, antennae, and the bases of the legs modified into primitive jaws in some species.
6. Sediment also clogs the gills of fishes.
7. But even here the story does not end, for after fifteen or twenty years, the urge to breed and migrate once again comes upon them and down to the river mouths they proceed, slithering over wet meadows by night until they reach the greater river, lying up by day in damp holes, enough water remaining in their gills to enable them to breath.
8. If the fish is whole, and the fishmonger has done the decent thing - removed the guts and gills, which would taint it during cooking - all you need do is immerse the beast in any container large enough to hold it (ideally a fish kettle), cover it with cold water and bring it gently to the boil.
9. It is peat-coloured, and its gills both camouflage it by breaking up its outline and enable it to breathe in still water.
10. But under little understood conditions of environmental change, its offspring can lose their gills, developing into the land-dwelling adults.
11. When I saw the amount of entries I had to sift through, my gills went into overdrive and I hyperventilated.
12. The lowering of pH in fact causes aluminium to be released from clays (in which it abounds), and this causes the fish's gills to produce mucus, which reduces their ability to absorb oxygen.
13. We would brave the icy blast, stagger down the hill and stuff ourselves to the gills with scrambled or poached eggs on buttery toast, or light-as-air omelettes, followed by giant sized mugs of good, strong tea and thick slices of bread and farm butter, all priced to suit the hard-up airman's pocket.