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Like desert rodents such as the kangaroo rat, marine mammals such as dolphins have highly efficient kidneys that produce only a tiny amount of very concentrated urine. What common selective pressure shaped this trait in these seemingly dissimilar animals?

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Cecie Starr + 3 others
Publisher: Cengage Learning
ISBN: 9781337408332

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