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There are crabs which breathe water and crabs which breathe air. It is rare to find a crab that does both but intertidal crabs do but they must remain wet to breath air (strange, right?).
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Can dolphins breathe air above water or do they have to breathe under water?
No mammals can breathe underwater. All mammals, including sea mammals, must breathe above the surface of the water. This is why marine mammals such as dolphins and whales frequently come to the surface.
Do crabs breathe through their skins?
Crabs have gills. The underwater ones have larger gills than the terrestrial ones. Terrestrial crabs use the humidity in the air to breathe. this is why crabs live near water even if they are land dwellers. some crabs have very small and basic lungs but these cannot function without water and are usually attached to some sort of gill.
Can roly polys breathe underwater?
yes, but they can't breathe in water. they're related to crabs and lobsters.
How long can kit fisto breathe underwater?
Yes. Kit Fisto's species, the Nautolans, are amphibian-like creatures (they can breathe above and under water)
How do crocodiles breath on land?
They don't, any aquatic reptile needs to return to the surface to breathe after a while, the only creatures that can breather underwater are fish (and all their variants ie: sharks, stingrays etc)
Can you drown in water?
yes, because you can't breathe in water.
How do sea hermit crabs breathe?
Crabs have gills. They breathe by letting water run over their gills and getting the oxygen out of it. Crabs that spend some time on land carry a little water inside their shell so they can still breathe. This is why you see them running in and out of the water at the seashore.
Do fish breathe under water?
well yes they do 'breathe' underwater with their gills
How do dugongs breathe?
Through special nostrils. The nostrils of a dugong are closed when submerged in water, and since a dugong is a mammal, it cannot breathe oxygen from inside the water. When they want to breathe, they push their nostrils above the water surface, when they're underwater, nostrils are shut to prevent water from entering.
Could whales breathe in water?
whales can breathe underwater that is why they live in water but sometimes they have to come up to breathe like fish
Do dwarf zebra hermit crabs and blue hermit crabs live in water?
yes they do live underwater
Can fish breathe underwater?
Yes they breathe through their gills using the oxygen in the water.
