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All mammals have lungs. It is one of the defining characteristics of mammals along with live birth (not eggs, except monotremes) and non-nucleated red blood cells. A rabbit is a mammal, the following traits are common among all mammals. A rabbits lung works just like ours, they breath oxygen from the air, like all mammals, even Dolphins and Whales (which are classified as mammals).
1. The first characteristic that guarantees that an animal is a mammal is that it (if it is female) can produce milk to feed its young. This milk is produced by modified sweat glands called 'mammary' glands. It is from these glands that the whole group takes its name, 'Mammals.
2. The second test is the possession of hair, something humans often have problems with but which they should respect more. No other animal has hair in the same form as mammals, and all mammals have some hair at least at the beginning of their lives - baby whales and dolphins are born with a moustache.
3. The lower jaw in mammals is a single bone on either side. In all other vertebrates there are more than one bone on each side of the jaw.
4. The mammal middle ear, and only the mammal middle ear, contains 3 bones. The Stapes or (Stirrup), Incus or (Anvil) and the Malleus or (Hammer). Once these bones were part of the lower jaw, but during the early evolution of mammals they changed jobs and became a part of our hearing apparatus instead.
5. In mammals the main artery leaving the heart curves to the left becoming the aortic arch. In birds it curves to the right and in all other vertebrates there are more than one main artery leaving the heart.
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Why do dessert rabbits have big ears?
Dessert rabbits along with most dessert mammals have big ears to circulate air through there bodies.
What gas is needed by animals to breathe in?
Animals need AIR to breath in - AIR is made up of about 80% Nitrogen and 20% Oxygen. The animals use the Oxygen in the AIR.NOTE if an animal were to breath 100% Oxygen this would eventually kill it, Pure Oxygen is toxic.They need to breath AIR.
How many times a day do fish come up fir air?
Most fishes never come to the surface for air. Most 'breath' water, extracting oxygen from water they pump across their gills. Frequently fish in oxygen depleted water will rise to the surface and take in water from just below the surface because there is usually a higher concentration of oxygen there. Fish 'gasping' at the surface of an aquarium or pond usually indicates that the water quality has deteriorated. There are some fishes with specialized gills that allow them to breath air directly, and obtain some of their oxygen in that manner. These fishes usually are found in water with normally low oxygen levels, as may be found in bogs and swamps. The ability to breath air directly sometimes diminishes the ability some species to obtain all of their oxygen from the water, so these fish usually need to visit the surface periodically each day. There are also obligate air breathers who must obtain most of their oxygen from the air. Lungfish are an example. Mudskippers are another example of air-breathing fish. Such creatures are, however, unsuited for life on land, and must exist at least partially in the water. There is a great variety of adaptation and variety among fishes in breathing and related activities. Even air breathing fish must remain moist at all times. The ability of fishes to breath air and/or water covers a broad spectrum, generally dictated by environmental factors.
What living factor do rabbits and field mice need to survive?
Air, water, food, shelter.
What structures help birds get enough oxygen to fly?
air sacs
Can rabbits survive the air conditioner?
Air conditioners blowing directly on rabbits are a very bad thing. It will cause colds, pneumonia and other respiratory problems. Rabbits need to be cool in the summer so you must fix it so the air does not blow directly on the rabbits.
Which part of the human body takes in oxygen directly from the air?
The lungs take in oxygen directly from the air.
Do the eyes absorb oxygen directly from the air?
Yes and no.There are not many blood vessels to supply oxygen to the eye. This is to keep the eye clear so we can see. The eye works around this by absorbing tears that have dissolved the oxygen in the air. The eye also gets its nutrients this way.So they eyes do not get their oxygen directly from the air but from tears that have dissolved oxygen directly from the air.
WHAT part of the human body absorbs oxygen directly from the air?
cornea of eye
How do head lice breathe?
they absorb oxygen directly from the air without lungs.
What gas do trees give rabbits?
Oxygen is a gas. Trees don't give only rabbits oxygen, they give everyone oxygen. Without oxygen, we would die.
What is a chemical property ability to condense from a gas to a liquid ability to react with oxygen in the air or ability to change directly from a gas to a liquid?
Ability to react with oxygen in the air is a chemical property.
How do dolphins squids and tuna fish get there oxygen?
Dolphins actually have to surface to get oxygen from the air. Tuna and squid have special lungs called "gills" that allow them to remove oxygen directly from water.
How does a moon jellyfish get air?
Oxygen dissolves in the ocean, and all species which dwell in the water have access to that dissolved oxygen. A jellyfish is surrounded by it, and can absorb it directly into its body.
What eats mangroves?
oxygen (air) and water
Is oxygen a air?
Oxygen is in the air.
How do rabbits get enough oxygen to live?
They breathe, with lungs.
