Turtle Breathes facts

While investigating facts about Turtle Breathes, I found out little known, but curios details like:

A "Cloaca" is an all-in-one hole which serves as a pee-hole + ass-hole + birth hole + in/out sex-hole. Birds have this all-purpose hole, as do some mammals, and 1 in 20,000 humans. Some turtles even breath through it, making it a 5-purpose hole for them.

Snapping turtles hibernate underwater and can go for over 6 months without breathing. Their nervous system shuts down and their shells help neutralize toxins that build up in their bodies from anaerobic glycolysis.

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1. Turtles can breathe through their butts. It’s called cloacal respiration and it happens during winter hibernation in near frozen lakes.

2. The White-Throated snapping turtle, a species of Turtle that breathes out of its ass

3. Sea turtles have lungs and breathe atmospheric air. They spend most of their time under water but they need to come to the surface of the water to grab some air.

4. There is a turtle that can breathe through its ass.

5. Butt-Breathing turtles are critically endangered.

6. Some turtles breathe through the same hole that they urinate, defecate, have sex, and give birth.

7. Some species of turtles breathe from their butt

8. Some species of Turtles, during their underwater hibernation period, can diffuse oxygen and carbon dioxide in and out through their Cloaca in a process called Cloacal Respiration, meaning they can literally breath through their ass.

9. Alligator snapping turtle hunts actively during the night. It lays motionless on the bottom of the water during the day and uses its worm-like appendage to attract prey. Alligator snapping turtle can spend up to 40 minutes under the water without returning to the surface to breathe.

10. Along with being an endangered species, the white-throated snapping turtle can breathe through its butt

What is true about turtle breathes?

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Some Turtles can breathe through their butts it’s called Cloacal Respiration.

About a turtle that "breathes" oxygen from water using its anal cavity. I present: The Australian Mary River Turtle - source

The Fitzroy River Turtle can breathe through its bum - source

Turtles can hibernate underwater for months during winter, breathing through their tails.

Some turtles can breathe through both their mouth and butt - source

Many aquatic turtles employ cloacal breathing... turtles breath through their buttholes.

The critically endangered Australian White-throated snapping turtle, also called the "bum-breathing turtle" can get nearly 70% of its oxygen through its cloacal bursae, or butt.

The White-Throated Snapping Turtle can breathe through its butt.

Cantor's giant softshell turtle only surfaces to breathe two times a day

Some turtles can breathe through their butts.

The Australian Fitzroy River Turtle breathes out of its ass