Additionally, in the instances like salamanders that absorb oxygen through their skin is this the same function?
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They still can as long as they are wet. Gills don’t work that much different from lungs really, the big difference being that gill’s dry out much more quickly.
When you first pull a fish out of water, at first it is not suffocating. It actually has the opposite problem, and is dealing with too much oxygen, poisonous levels of oxygen. If a fish could keep its gills wet long enough, this would end up killing it. But instead of eventually the gills dry out and then it dies of suffocation.
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