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Platypuses breathe air. All mammals, including marine mammals such as whales and dolphins, must breathe air.
Platypuses usually hold their breath for one to two minutes while they hunt and feed underwater, and they are capable of staying underwater for up to eight minutes if undisturbed. They must make hundreds of dives every day in order to find enough food, as they cannot live or breathe underwater.
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How can platypuses breathe fire?
Platypuses do not breathe fire. They are normal, air-breathing mammals.
What mammal characteristics do platypuses have?
Platypuses feed their young on mothers' milkThey are warm-bloodedThey breathe air using lungsThey are covered with fur
How long can platypuses hold there breathe under water?
I'm geussing about 20-25 minutes under water
How do water scorpion breath?
They breathe through breathing tubes that will stick out of the water to get oxygen from the air.
Do beavers breathe air or water?
air
Do platypuses breathe through lungs?
Yes. Like all mammals, platypuses breathe using lungs. When they are hunting for food in creeks and rivers, they need to surface frequently to breathe.
Can sea otters breathe under water?
Otters can't breathe under water. They're mammals, they breathe air, with lungs. When they dive, they hold their breath.
How dolphins breathe in water?
They use a blow hole to breathe in/out air when the surface the water.
Can a dolphin breathe in and out of air and water?
Dolphins are mammals. They breathe air with lungs, pretty much just like you and I. They can't breathe water. When they dive they hold their breath.
Does a platypus breathe through gills?
No. Platypuses have lungs.
Can the platypus breathe under water?
Platypuses cannot breathe underwater, just like mammals and dolphins can't. They tend to stay underwater for one to two minutes at a time, and can stay underwater as long as ten minutes, if left undisturbed.
How do bettas breathe?
Betta fish breathe air....yes... that's right... they breathe air. They breathe air because they have an organ by their gills that is called the Labyrinth's Organ which allows them to breathe air. They breathe air by coming up to the surface of the water. Then they gather air in their mouths and hold their breath underwater.
