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How do elephant breathe?

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Elephants breathe through the mouth or trunk (which is just a very long nose) . The air then goes to the lungs, which function just like ours.

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elephants breath with there lungs because they are mammals

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They breathe through their trunk and mouth. The same way that we breath through our nose and mouth.

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