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Is a shark a mammal and why?

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No a shark is not a mammal. It isn't a mammal because it filters water through it's gill slits then oxygen is filtered from the water. To be a mammal an animal has to directly breath oxygen into the lungs.

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Sharks are fish. Cold-blooded, Breathe with gills etc. Mammals, that's us. live birth, nurse our Young, Breathe with lungs etc etc.

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Sharks are classified as fish, not mammals. There is no shark which is classified as a mammal. Even the whale shark is a shark, not a whale, and therefore not a mammal.

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