JB
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Why is a rabbit's liver so large?Why is a rabbit's liver so large? It seems disproportionately large for a relatively small animal!
(just occured to me as I was cooking at the weekend)
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Northern_Lad
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Maybe they drink too much.
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cab
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I find that the older the rabbit, the bigger the liver. I guess that its all to do with its veggie diet, its got a lot of plant toxins to break down all its life.
But its worth remembering that livers are always bigger than you're expecting them to be. The first time you see a whole beef liver, its kind of amazing.
The biggest liver relative to the size of the animal (at least of animals I've gutted) is a squirrel. How the heck a squirrel packs in a liver like that I don't know.
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sean
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I've seen some fairly large livers inside people.
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Northern_Lad
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| sean wrote: | | I've seen some fairly large livers inside people. |
I which previous life: medical or retail?
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cab
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| sean wrote: | | I've seen some fairly large livers inside people. |
Having never seen a human liver... How big is one of our livers?
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sean
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Two or three rugby ball's worth. Heavy too, as anyone who's held a liver retractor for three or four hours can tell you.
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dpack
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mmhm pate
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vegplot
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Lecter's the name, long pig's the game.
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gil
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| sean wrote: | | Two or three rugby ball's worth. . |
eh ? I couldn't fit 2-3 rugby balls into my entire torso, let alone any other organs or bits - I'm sure my liver's not that big.
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Brownbear
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| gil wrote: | | sean wrote: | | Two or three rugby ball's worth. . |
eh ? I couldn't fit 2-3 rugby balls into my entire torso, let alone any other organs or bits - I'm sure my liver's not that big. |
Maybe if you took a Swiss Army knife and used the innards-unfurling tool, you'd find that your abdomen had the properties of a Tardis.
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vegplot
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| gil wrote: | | sean wrote: | | Two or three rugby ball's worth. . |
eh ? I couldn't fit 2-3 rugby balls into my entire torso, let alone any other organs or bits - I'm sure my liver's not that big. |
Average is 2kg but as low as 1.2 kg - for a healthy liver.
Edit. Human, not rabbit.
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