At 01:50 PM 1/17/97 -0900, Warr wrote:

Hello again, ^_^

THanks everyone for responding to the Pans-taro Question.  Now I have
another...well two but they make one sort of.  How does an octupus..or a
duck in Mouses's case drown?  Asphyxiation?   Heh, had to get that one out
there.

Ducks, and all other birds, breathe air.  They just hold their breath when 
they go underwater.  So do whales, dolphins, sealions, etc..

Octopi, fish, eels, tadpoles, etc. breather air dissolved in water.  If the 
water has no air dissolved in it (just pure H20), they can't breathe either.