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What does a mouse breathe?

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No. Mice do not technically breath with their gills extract dissolved oxygen from water, afterward excreting carbon dioxide. While this is respiration it is not technically breathing. Mice generally breathe with their lungs.

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A mouse is a land mammal. It breathes air that has oxygen in it, just like people do.

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