No bubbles rose, for it was not an air breather.

The species is sometimes referred to as the fragile air breather.

"If they were air breathers, Captain, it would seem logical.

Rather, sea dwellers and air breathers together could do what neither alone is able to."

Since they are air breathers, filtration is not necessary.

"The air temperature is warmer and these animals are air breathers."

Air breathers are typically not able to hold their breath for sufficient time to allow the act of sexual intercourse to take place.

Not air breathers and probably with a ferocious, xenophobic culture to boot.

A ploy to get me away from my people so that the air breathers might exploit them as they have in the past?"

That is why they were air breathers and were required by Nature to surface to inhale oxygen.

The scoop sealed to the large air breather.

Once inside the traps, the terrapins cannot escape and, being essentially air breathers, drown, he said.

When there is a severe drought, these air breathers are able to traverse short stretches of land seeking better conditions.

The lights were dim; smoke filled the air and everyone wore their air breather masks.

The beast's nostrils flared-it was obviously an air breather, though not a cetacean.

The African lungfishes are obligate air breathers, with reduced gills in the adults.

The principle or slogan regularly used in debates is "I'm not only a tree hugger but an air breather just like you."

These fish are obligate air breathers, and if they are not allowed to access the surface, they will die.

Soon after he supervises the transition of Atlantis citizens from water to air breathers; this is needed to escape an enemy attack.

The arapaima is an "obligatory air breather".

Some are obligate air breathers.

Tiny, ancient single-nucleated life at the bottom, scaling toward complex warm-blooded air breathers at the top.

Obligate air breathers, such as the African lungfish, must breathe air periodically or they suffocate.

They're air breathers."

Facultative air breathers, such as the catfish Hypostomus plecostomus, only breathe air if they need to and will otherwise rely on their gills for oxygen.