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It is a sad thing -- these creatures are so very fascinating, and possessed of so much personality -- and live such short lives.
Poor Maya here really did have an odd-looking arms; as you suggested, it looks like a mammalian circulatory problem. I've read that the tissues forming the brachial hearts are rather more capable of surviving certain low-oxygen stresses than the central heart.
http://jeb.biologists.org/cgi/reprint/117/1/471.pdf
This suggests to me that failure at different times might be fairly commonplace -- and may be part of what afflicted poor Maya at the end.
Best wishes.
Poor Maya here really did have an odd-looking arms; as you suggested, it looks like a mammalian circulatory problem. I've read that the tissues forming the brachial hearts are rather more capable of surviving certain low-oxygen stresses than the central heart.
http://jeb.biologists.org/cgi/reprint/117/1/471.pdf
This suggests to me that failure at different times might be fairly commonplace -- and may be part of what afflicted poor Maya at the end.
Best wishes.