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Terrestrial animals are generally either ureotelic or uricotelic, not ammonotelic, why?

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Ammonotelism involves loss of large amount of water (e.g. 500 ml of water to expel one gram of ammonia). Terrestrial animals cannot lose such a large amount of water so these switch over either to ureotelism (e.g.mammals) or uricotelism (e.g.insects,birds and terrestrial reptiles) for conservation of water.
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