Abstract
The armadillo Chaetophractus villosus shows a remarkable respiratory adaptation when the nostrils are completely covered by soil: it is able to maintain efficient respiratory movements with the corresponding filling of the lungs, thanks to a mechanism that allows it to use the air filling the space between the soil particles, without invasion of the nasal cavities by those particles.
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