Snalt...

[kinyonga]

For a long time now I have been looking for information on what salts were expelled through the nasal discharges in reptiles to see what it contained....
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/142/3597/1300
"In the secreted fluid potassium usually exceeded sodium concentrations, with chloride and bicarbonate as the major anions."

And again...
http://books.google.ca/books?id=dZk...nvXwDQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1
http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/319301

 

[Syn]

Err, snalt? Is that what it's called?

Very interesting articles. The last one made the most sense.. the second one didn't seem to work for me?

 

[cushcameleon]

Interesting stuff. Thanks for sharing.

 

[kinyonga]

Snalt is the term people have been using for it, Syn.

 

[Syn]

For a second I thought it may have been a typo! Never heard it called that before. Thanks!