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What animal has the most hearts?

Question #104370. Asked by skatharaki.
Last updated May 14 2021.

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deaconblues63
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deaconblues63
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Answer has 15 votes.
The octopus

An octopus has three hearts. Two hearts are associated with the gills and are called gill hearts.

link https://www.newscientist.com/question/many-hearts-octopus


Response last updated by gtho4 on May 13 2021.
Apr 03 2009, 8:18 PM
Flamis
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Answer has 12 votes.
As I vaguely recalled from high school biology, the earthworm has five hearts.

link http://extension.illinois.edu/worms/anatomy/anatomy6.html

However, I think much happens on what you actually call a heart.

Response last updated by satguru on Aug 22 2016.
Apr 03 2009, 8:36 PM
scottietwenty3
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Answer has 13 votes.
A typical lumbricid (earth worm) will have 5 hearts.

link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthworm

Apr 03 2009, 9:28 PM
foosyerdoos
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Answer has 16 votes.

Response last updated by gtho4 on May 13 2021.
Apr 04 2009, 12:10 AM
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Answer has 11 votes.
The earthworm has five pairs of hearts, which would make a total of ten. Dissection (the reason I avoided Biology in High School!) instructions:

"Follow the dorsal vessel anteriorly to the esophagus and find the five pairs of large, contractile, segmental blood vessels which are the hearts ."

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Some describe the cockroach as having 13 hearts, others describe it as having a 13-chambered single heart. "A cockroach has a chain of hearts, in all totaling to 13. Some regard it as a single heart with 13 chambers. These are funnel shaped chambers with a pair of tiny holes called ostia."

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Response last updated by nautilator on Aug 23 2016.
Apr 04 2009, 12:31 AM
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Answer has 28 votes
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Answer has 28 votes.

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As was said before, this depends on how you define heart. There is such a thing as a pseudoheart, and earthworms are said to have pseudohearts. Similarly, a cockroach has a "a single structure with 12 to 13 chambers."

link https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pseudoheart

Cephalopods (cuttlefish, squid, octopus) have three hearts: two for the gills and one central heart, and that is the correct answer.


Response last updated by Terry on May 14 2021.
Aug 23 2016, 9:00 AM
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