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Seals have high vitamin A in their livers as vitamin A aids in the growth of their pups, which is important in the short summers of the Arctic in order to prepare for the harsh Arctic winter. Polar bears also have high vitamin A, mainly due to their diet of seals but possibly also due to the same need for fast growing offspring. Huskies are the dogs of eskimos who live in freezing conditions and hunt mainly seals and do not consume seal livers due to the lethal concentrations of vitamin A. We can see evidence of these evolutionary pressures on Huskies to develop the same adaption. We can also speculate that the gene determining how much vitamin A is produced is simple, possibly something that can change between the time dogs were first domesticated and the Huskies of today. The speculations I have made are not for certain but hopefully the evidence can shed light on the situation.
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Can animals be poisoned by liver?
Yes, if the liver is putrid it could poison an animal. Also the livers of some animals (eg that of a polar bear) contain so much vitamin A that if a human ate it (humans are animals) they would get vitamin A poisoning.
Huskies Rolling in Excrement?
Huskies are very intelligent so they do not roll in excrement
How do touuph are huskies?
Huskies are very tough so that they can survive harsh conditions.
There are seven black huskies four white huskies and five gray huskies on a team what fraction of the team of huskies are gray?
5/16 because all the huskies together are 16 so it would be something over 16. ASnd there are 5 gray huskies.
Why does your Siberian huskies smell like fish and does not eat fish ever?
well huskies are dogs from a wolf pack so the huskies are from the Artic so they smell wiffy but its fine ! they do eat fish but it depends on what bread they are
What is the effect of vitamins C to the white mice?
Mice make their own Vitamin C (so for a mouse it isn't a vitamin) so vitamin C except in large quantities shouldn't do much to a mouse.
How much Is 25 percent of vitamin c?
25 %.So if you had 100g of vitamin C 25% would be 25 grams
Can a person take too much vitamin B5?
It is always harmful to take to much of one drug, so the same thing will apply , to much of vitamin B5 will be very bad for the person.
How much vitamin A is in a orange?
omg!! u r so freaqkin funny!!! i knowe that you know how much vitamin a is in an orange!!! ur just messin around!!!! hahahahahaha!! lol
Why were huskies so important in Antarctica?
Because huskies pulles the sledges that they used to get around in. And they were also used for hunting down animals for their owners.
Do Siberian huskies live in pairs in herds etc?
Huskies enjoy company, they are social dogs. So they prefer to live in "packs" or pairs.
Do Huskies adapt well to captivity?
Huskies are by nature domesticated dogs. Therefore, they are bred in captivity. Even so, a well trained huskie does well in a cage.
