Cloaca time!

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• tetris11@feddit.uk ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Wanna try?

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    • tetris11@feddit.uk ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      no

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• TerrabyteMarx@quokk.au ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Cloacin me crazy

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• YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Do turtles have a cloaca?

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• Eranziel@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Wait, breathing?!

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  • falseWhite@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yep, butt breathing is real:

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

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