Dr. Universe: What would happen if we had three hearts and one of them stopped?
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It’s hard to say exactly what would happen if you had three hearts and one of them stopped. Humans, and cats, have just one heart, so we have no experience with this. Octopuses, on the other hand, do have three hearts.
When I called my friend Kirt Onthank, a professor at Walla Walla University who studies how octopus bodies work, he told me all about the three hearts. Before becoming a professor, he also studied biology here at Washington State University.
Onthank says the answer to your question depends on which of an octopus’s three hearts stops working. » More …
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