Smartie studied aquatic animals last school year. This week she asked me, "Are mermaids fish or mammals? Because if they're mammals, they'd have to go to the surface to breathe, but King Triton wouldn't allow Ariel to go to the surface, so she'd die if she was a mammal. But if she's a fish she should have gills, and I didn't see any gills on her. And when she *did* go to the surface, she didn't die in the air either. So how do mermaids breathe, lungs or gills?"
Very good question. Why couldn't you be more scientifically accurate, Disney?
