What animal has the strongest lungs?

Fahlman found that dolphins can replace as much as 95 percent of the air in their lungs in a single breath. For comparison, humans are capable of replacing only as much as 65 percent.
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Which animal has the best breathing?

Birds take oxygen into their body tissues when they breathe in and when they breathe out. So, for every one bird breath, humans would need to take two. This makes birds super-efficient breathers.
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Which animal has only one lung?

Most snakes only have one functioning lung, and do not require the exchange of respiratory gasses to live.
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What animal has lungs similar to humans?

Mammal Lungs

Dogs, cats, horses, cattle, sheep, pigs, monkeys, rats and a host of other animals have a similar lung structure to humans.
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Is there an animal with more than 2 lungs?

Some organisms with book lungs have them in two pairs, while others have anywhere from one pair to four pairs. The reason for this many is simple: The book lungs are small. That said, arachnids are (in general) quite small, but some of them are still too big to be sustained by only one pair (or one book lung).
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Do ants have lungs?

No because they don't use lungs to breathe. Like most insects, they take in oxygen through openings in their abdomens called 'spiracles' which allows sufficient oxygen to maintain their activity.
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Do spiders have lungs?

Abstract. Spiders (Araneae) are unique regarding their respiratory system: they are the only animal group that breathe simultaneously with lungs and tracheae. Looking at the physiology of respiration the existence of tracheae plays an important role in spiders with a well-developed tracheal system.
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Which animal can breathe through its skin?

(a) fish and frog. (b) frog and earthworm.
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Can anything breathe air water?

Amphibians are vertebrates (animals with backbones) which are able, when adult, to live both in water and on land. Unlike fish, they can breathe atmospheric oxygen through lungs, and they differ from reptiles in that they have soft, moist, usually scale-less skin, and have to breed in water.
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What animal can breathe through their mouth?

Air entering the mouth will not fully make it to the lungs. Even so, rabbits with advanced upper airway disease will attempt to breathe through their mouths. Many other mammals, such as dogs and adult humans, have the ability to breathe indefinitely through either the oral or nasal cavity.
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Which animal has 32 brains?

Leech has 32 brains. A leech's internal structure is segregated into 32 separate segments, and each of these segments has its own brain. Leech is an annelid.
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What animal has 8 hearts?

Such an enormous pressure would require a very large, strong and slow-beating heart. But, they postulate, instead of a single large heart, the Barosaurus probably had some eight hearts.
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Which animal has no blood?

Hydra doesn't have blood. It is a single-cellular animal. In the hydra, respiration is accomplished via diffusion of molecules of oxygen and carbon dioxide through the skin whereas earthworm, cockroach and octopus has blood.
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What animal can hold breath for 6 days?

Wyochernes asiaticus, a miniscule arachnid, is known to hold its breath underwater for weeks at a time. The only mammal notable for deep-diving is the Cuvier's beaked whale (Ziphius cavirostris).
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What animal can live the longest?

There are a number of marine species that outlive humans, and the mammal species that holds the record for longevity is the bowhead whale, which can live for 200 years - or more.
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What animal can hold its breath for 40 minutes?

Sloths can swim three times faster than they can walk on land. And because of their ability to slow their heart rates to one-third its normal rate, they can also hold their breath for a whopping 40 minutes under water.
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Is there an animal that can breathe fire?

Unfortunately, no documented animal has the ability to breathe fire, but there is one group of animals that is widely accepted as those that come closest to doing so: bombardier beetles.
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Can you drown fish?

Because oxygen levels in the water aren't anywhere close to what they are in the air, fish need to move a lot of water to stay alive. The large surface area of the gills helps them collect as much oxygen as possible. If they're unable to do this, they can drown (although we know it's technically more like suffocating).
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Is there a fish that breathes air?

The Northern Snakehead fish was just spotted for the first time in Georgia. It's an invasive species that can breathe air and survive outside of water — and wildlife officials are urging people to kill it on site.
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What it is the only mammal that Cannot jump?

In the case of the elephant, in fact, it's impossible. Unlike most mammals, the bones in elephant legs are all pointed downwards, which means they don't have the "spring" required to push off the ground.
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Which animal can move its eyes independently?

Chameleon. If you've ever seen a chameleon, maybe you've noticed that their eyes go in all sorts of different directions! A chameleon's eyes have the ability to move independently of one another, allowing them to have a 360 degree field of vision.
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Which animal has the longest tail?

Giraffes have the longest tails of any land mammal—up to 8 feet (2.4 meters)—but it's easier to think of the length of an animal's body in relation to its tail length, says Robert Espinoza, a biologist at California State University, Northridge.
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Do spiders fart?

Since the stercoral sac contains bacteria, which helps break down the spider's food, it seems likely that gas is produced during this process, and therefore there is certainly the possibility that spiders do fart.
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Can you drown a spider?

What about drowning the spider? That's pretty cruel: it can take spiders over an hour to drown. No, the best way to kill a spider, says Real Clear Science, is not with fire or water, but with ice.
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Do fish have lungs?

Like us, fish also need to take in oxygen and expel carbon dioxide in order to survive. But instead of lungs, they use gills. Gills are branching organs located on the side of fish heads that have many, many small blood vessels called capillaries.
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