FR2645403A1 - Process for rearing living beings in overoxygenated conditions in order to increase their size - Google Patents

Abstract

The invention relates to a process for rearing in an overoxygenated environment. This process aims to increase the size of the animals thus reared. It applies to all animals, both aquatic and terrestrial. It makes it possible for all rearing to be made profitable.

Description

 The present invention relates to a process for raising living beings in an oxygenated medium with a view to increasing their size.

 The size of living beings whatever they are is limited - as we will show - by the performance of the respiratory system, it is this phenomenon which prevents insects from reaching sizes exceeding a few centimeters.

 If the size of an animal is "L", its surface is calculated in "L" and its volume in "La". Thus, the size is represented by "L", the pulmonary capacity is an area therefore "L L" ", and the mass of the cells irrigated by oxygen, a volume therefore" L ".

 A living being could very well be represented by a solid sphere whose volume would represent the cell mass and the surface, the pulmonary surface.

Suppose that this animal is of size "L", its pulmonary surface on the mass of its cells would be
S / V = x. If "x" remains constant whatever the size, the pulmonary surface would not play any rolls in determining the size of living beings. Let's see what it is: Let's increase the size of the sphere or of the living being and see what becomes of the S / V = x ratio. (fig. 1).

Sphere "A" r = 2 S'e4 @ r = 16 # V @ 3/4 # r = 10.66 #
S '= 16 # ~ 1,500
V 10.66 n- @@@@@
Sphere "B" r = 4 S "= 4 # r = 64 # V" = 3/4 # r = 85,, 33 #
S "64 # ---- = -------- = 0.750
V "85.33 #
We see that if we increase the size of a being seen by two, the S / V ratio goes from 1.5 to 0.75, that is to say halves. Suffice to say that a living being whose size increases from simple to double, will have a respiratory capacity reduced by half. To compensate for this loss, the animal will have to breathe twice as fast or increase its heart rate in the same proportions.

 So it is perfectly impossible for a cricket, a cockroach, or a dragonfly to reach sizes larger than those it currently has. However there existed in the Jurassic period dragonflies, crickets, of much larger size. A kind of dragonfly, the meganeura Monyi "measured 70 cms.

 Insects have no lungs, but without going into details, we can say that the Jurassic insects had respiratory systems identical to those of the insects that we know today. In the respiratory membrane, gas exchange takes place thanks to the difference in concentration level on either side of the membrane, we then understand that if we increase the oxygen concentration in air, the achanga will be performed faster.

 bSo that the artificial increase in the percentage of oxygen in a breeding room, allows spontaneously or by selection to increase the size of the animals, whose breeding or cultivation is desired. This can be done in an airtight room, but also in the open air by dissolving oxygen or oxygen-rich air in an aqueous medium, in the case of fish or shellfish.

The increase in the oxygen level can be effected by elimination of nitrogen or by any other means.

 3 Until now, breeding has not provided a solution with regard to increasing the size of so-called domestic animals, or more generally breeding.

This breeding process should make it possible to increase the size of animals up to tens of times depending on the species, in particular crustaceans and fish where weight problems on the ground do not arise.

 This breeding process allows better yields, because the animals thus obtained have more meat.

 Conversely, reducing the amount of oxygen in the air causes the size of the animals to decrease. The sudden disappearance of the large dinosaur species at the end of the Cretaceous is due to a change in the composition of the air.

Claims (5)

REVEk3ICATI0NS  1) Process for raising living beings in an oxygenated environment with a view to increasing their size either spontaneously or by selection.  2) This process is characterized by the fact that animals are raised in an oxygen-rich atmosphere.  3) This process is characterized by the fact that the animals thus cultivated can see their size increase depending on the species up to tens of times.  4) This process is characterized by the fact that it applies to all terrestrial or aquatic animals (Crustaceans fish)  5) The characteristic of this process is that it allows greater profitability in breeding.