Types of skin presentation
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Frog Skin • Top layer – Permeable • They can breath through their skin. • They can drink through their skin. – Live skin cells – How is this different from the epidermis layer of human skin? • Color – camouflaged – warning coloration – Some can even change color! • Some frogs excrete toxins through their skin.
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Frog Skin• Top layer
– Permeable • They can breath through their
skin.• They can drink through their
skin.– Live skin cells – How is this
different from the epidermis layer of human skin?
• Color– camouflaged – warning coloration– Some can even change color!
• Some frogs excrete toxins through their skin.
Elephant Skin• Top layer
– Impermeable– Dead skin cells
• Very thick in order to hold in all that mass– 2.5 cm thick in some places
• No sweat glands– instead they have huge
ears to cool them down– They often bathe in water
to cool down.• Elephants cover their skin
in mud as a sunscreen.