Cloacin me crazy
Cloaca time!
Submitted 11 months ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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TerrabyteMarx@quokk.au 11 months ago
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 11 months ago
Do turtles have a cloaca?
Eranziel@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Wait, breathing?!
falseWhite@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Yep, butt breathing is real:
tetris11@feddit.uk 11 months ago
In an emergency situation if you cannot breathe through your mouth and nose, your anus opens up, and…
anothercatgirl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
wait really does hypoxia or rising CO2 levels make the sphincter open to attempt to breathe anally??
drosophila@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 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.
Nanook@lemmy.zip 11 months ago
Wanna try?
tetris11@feddit.uk 11 months ago
no