Assertion: electric eel | /r/CapableOf | breathe air
Facets:
value: mostly
type: DEGREE
value: of breathing oxygen
type: OTHER
value: in order to stay alive
type: PURPOSE
value: like the lungfish in that group
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: The Electric Eel Breathes Air!
text: Just like the Lungfish in that group that also have elongated eel like bodies, the Electric Eel needs to breath air.
text: Therefore, they have to inhale the air by reaching the surface of the water for every 10 minutes.
text: Electric eels breathe the air.
text: They breathe through air.
text: The reason why this animal acts like this is because instead of breathing oxygen in the water, electric eels breathe air.
text: Yes, electric eels can breathe air, and in fact, they have to in order to survive life in their low-oxygen habitat.
text: In fact, it needs to breathe air about 80% of the time in order to stay alive.
text: They’re a species of freshwater-dwelling knifefish that breathe air and can produce up to 860 volts of electricity at a time.
text: And just to round out the weirdness factor, electric eels breath mostly air because the water they live in is oxygen poor.