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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsSea cucumbers breathe through their anus (Twitter video)
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Pearlfish seek shelter, often up a sea cucumber's anus. Pearlfish are long eel shaped fish notorious for seeking protection in disturbing places. Sea cucumbers breathe through their anus, creating gentle currents a pearlfish can use to find its host there, it propels itself in thrusting its tail intensely.
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Sea cucumbers breathe through their anus (Twitter video) (Original Post)
zuul
Mar 2022
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Atticus
(15,124 posts)1. Trump is a sea cucumber? Who knew! nt
zuul
(14,615 posts)3. And that's Lindsey Graham hiding out in the Orange Anus's anus.
mitch96
(13,817 posts)4. "Lindsey Graham hiding out in the Orange Anus's anus".. to him it's like a breath of fresh air..nt
Crazyleftie
(458 posts)2. interesting....
I also know a politician who breathes through his anus.....
Wicked Blue
(5,767 posts)5. Quite a few from the GOP probably do
Maybe that's why they refuse to wear masks. They're already wearing masks on their butts.
ret5hd
(20,433 posts)6. Explains why they're always in a bad mood...
the whole world smells like shit.
frogmarch
(12,145 posts)7. So do turtles.
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During brumation, turtles don't require much oxygen, but what they need they can't get by breathing like they do in the warmer parts of the year, according to the McGill University Office of Science and Society. Instead, they use another form of respiration, which is kind of like breathing through their butts.
The technical term for this butt-breathing is cloacal respiration, and it's not quite like the breathing you do, or even like turtles do when they are above water, the university Office of Science and Society reports.
Through cloacal respiration, turtles get oxygen from the water by moving the water over their body surfaces covered in blood vessels. Turtles have a cloaca, which is essentially their butt, that has a lot of blood vessels, so the most efficient way to get oxygen is through the cloaca, hence the term cloacal respiration.
Turtles aren't the only butt breathers in the animal kingdom; it's fairly common among reptiles and amphibians, according to McGill University. Other well-known butt breathers include frogs and salamanders.
https://www.reconnectwithnature.org/news-events/the-buzz/nature-curiosity-how-turtles-breathe-underwater#:~:text=Turtles%20have%20a%20cloaca%2C%20which,hence%20the%20term%20cloacal%20respiration.