Submitted 5 days ago by vrek@programming.dev to [deleted]
The only possible exceptions I can think of are fish(I imagine gills and mouth are not connected but don’t really know). I am excluding bacteria and viruses and I believe they don’t really breath(correct me if I’m wrong).
Dolphins are the most classic example, having the blow hole.
Insects ‘breath’ through their ‘skin’
Dolphins can breathe thru their mouths tho.
There’s been some with damaged blowholes who have to resort to that.
What they do normally is like when you can “block” the connection of one or the other so air only goes thru one path. No idea how to describe that, or if other people can do it tho.
But if a dolphin needs to they can breathe thru their mouths just fine.
I read about this after I had the showerthought that dolphins have their nose on the back of their head. Apparently they evolved a ‘plug’ to separate the nose-lungs and the mouth-stomach. It was thought they couldn’t control it, but they found an example of a dolphin who had a damaged blowhole and figured out how to breathe from the mouth. But it looked like it wasn’t easy, iirc the dolphin had to basically swim fast and jump into the air to help to force it open. The dolphin wasn’t expected to live long.
Yes, most animals can. Insects don’t breathe the way we do at all. They have separate openings for their respiration.
Amphibians start out with gills and only in adulthood do they develop lungs (althourh the axolotl keeps its gills for life) and can respirate through their skin.
Mollusks either respirate through their skin, gills, or through an air sack.
In none of those cases do the respiratory and digestive tracts cross. And those groups of animals outnumber us by far.
Very interesting thanks… Now to do more research because this has buged me
Most animals do not have this habit of complaining.
Guinea pigs are obligate nasal breathers. They only breathe through their mouths when in extreme respiratory distress.
They are also absolutely adorable.
That air is still going through the same tube as the food though, regardless of nose or mouth breathing.
Most mammals (if not most animals) breathe through their noses.
People complaining about humans being designed poorly don’t know that this design “flaw” is what allows us to be able to speak.
Yes, this increases our risk of dying by choking. But despite that, being able to speak has been so evolutionarily advantageous that our increased risk of dying is inconsequential in the grand scheme of things.
I’d have put the vocal chords in the nasal passage, allowing humans to still talk while eliminating the choking problem.
The laryngeal nerve is a much more stupid design, simply because there’s no practical reason for it to be the way it is.
Also: if we didn’t have the ability to breath through our mouths, swimming as a sport would be harder, since we don’t have the ability to close our nose-holes.
I’d have put the vocal chords in the nasal passage, allowing humans to still talk while eliminating the choking problem.
Exactly. A very simple correction to the design would allow for both.
The laryngeal nerve is a great example of how flawed our bodies are. A few more are:
Yeah, I say designed, but it’s not in the “something planned it” sense. We ended up this way because of a series of random chances that just sorta’ worked in allowing us to live long enough to have more successful offspring.
Quite a lot of people can close their nose-holes by curling up their upper lip. I’m not one of them, unfortunately.
Don’t dolphins and whales breathe through their blowholes?
Dolphins have blow holes, theyre mamals right?
Horses still breathe through the same pharynx that food goes through, a lot of people here are misunderstanding the question.
Look at my horse.
My horse is amazing.
Give it a lick.
Mm, it tastes just like raisins.
:side-eyeChloe.jpg:
Blasphemy! This is intelligent design by our lord saviour!
Different pipes, but same orifice I suppose. You aren’t eating through your bronchioles. I assure you, if you attempt to eat or drink through your bronchioles, you’re going to have a bad day, which i believe is your point.
Can’t some frogs absorb oxygen through their skin?
Bacteria and fungi do respirate but they don’t necessarily have organelles. So depends on how you use the term “breath”. I think viruses mostly rely on the host cell’s preexisting homeostasis.
NO!
spankmonkey@lemmy.world 5 days ago
When turtles hibernate they ‘breathe’ through their butt (cloaca).
Apytele@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
You’re my favorite commenter in this thread. Please enjoy this squid as a token of my affection: 🦑
Cruxifux@feddit.nl 5 days ago
snores through my asshole
I looove being a turtle!
KittenBiscuits@lemm.ee 5 days ago
Now everyone in the mechanic’s waiting room is wondering why I just snorted. Thanks… 😂💀
whaleross@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Fun fact. So do bears.
hakunawazo@lemmy.world 5 days ago
I can just breath out.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 days ago
Boy are cloacas so much more than just a butt…