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Cloaca time!

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Submitted ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨fossilesque@mander.xyz⁩ to ⁨science_memes@mander.xyz⁩

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  • tetris11@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    In an emergency situation if you cannot breathe through your mouth and nose, your anus opens up, and…

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    • anothercatgirl@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      wait really does hypoxia or rising CO2 levels make the sphincter open to attempt to breathe anally??

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      • 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.

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      • Nanook@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Wanna try?

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      • tetris11@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        no

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  • YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Do turtles have a cloaca?

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  • Eranziel@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Wait, breathing?!

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    • falseWhite@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Yep, butt breathing is real:

      independent.co.uk/…/butt-breathing-method-lung-pa…

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  • TerrabyteMarx@quokk.au ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Cloacin me crazy

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