Do turtles have a cloaca?
Cloaca time!
Submitted 3 days ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 1 day ago
Eranziel@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Wait, breathing?!
falseWhite@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Yep, butt breathing is real:
TerrabyteMarx@quokk.au 2 days ago
Cloacin me crazy
tetris11@feddit.uk 3 days ago
In an emergency situation if you cannot breathe through your mouth and nose, your anus opens up, and…
anothercatgirl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 days ago
wait really does hypoxia or rising CO2 levels make the sphincter open to attempt to breathe anally??
drosophila@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 days ago
If you’re a turtle or a sea cucumber maybe.
IIRC during covid they did experiment with liquid oxygen exchange through the intestinal wall for patients whose lungs were so wrecked normal ventilators weren’t sufficient. So you could maybe engage in some anal breathing if you were to get a super-oxygenated fluid enema, but its not something the unassisted human body can do. Or tries to do, for that matter.
Nanook@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
Wanna try?
tetris11@feddit.uk 2 days ago
no