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Cats can drink salt water (lemmy.world)

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[–] roguetrick@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Airid environment animals that could subsist on metabolic water and blood to an extent. In inland arid environments most standing water never makes it to an ocean, which means it accumulates surface salts and is brackish.