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<strong>Principles</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Animal</strong> <strong>Physiology</strong><br />

Respiratory System<br />

Air Respirers<br />

▪ Bimodal breather - Frogs g<br />

▸ From eggs, laval stages have gills<br />

♦ Uses lungs g & skin to breathe<br />

♦ Uses buccal pump to force air into lungs (like fish)<br />

♦ Several inspiratory oscillation needed to fill lungs<br />

♦ One long exhalation empties lungs<br />

♦ O2 intake mainly through lungs<br />

♦ CO CO2 elimination i i i through cutaneous

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