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Answer by bandybabboon for Oxygen uptake with gills from water vs lungs from...

A mammal would have to breathe 800 times more volume to throughput the same weight of medium, so, in a given time, the fish puts through more oxygen than the land animal. Considering salmon and tuna...

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Answer by Winstan for Oxygen uptake with gills from water vs lungs from...

The assumption in the question was corroborated by this article here, and is correct. The downvote is unnecessary, it is a valid question, and was easily answered with strong scientific consensus.As a...

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Oxygen uptake with gills from water vs lungs from atmosphere

The concentration of oxygen in water tends to be around 6.5-8 mg/L. In the atmosphere, it is 21%, one liter of air weighs roughly 1.25 gram, so, oxygen concentration is 0.25 g/L or 250 mg/L. So, lungs...

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