Cloaca time!

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tetris11@feddit.uk · 25 pts · 279d

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

Taleya@aussie.zone · 6 pts · 278d (1 reply)

Is...is the one ring a cloaca??

ivanafterall@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 277d

Poo comes out of it... ✅

Pee comes out of it... ✅

It shoots eggs... ✅

Yup.

Eranziel@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 277d (2 replies)

Wait, breathing?!

falseWhite@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 277d
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Narauko@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 277d

That's how the turtle do.

Seriously, some aquatic turtles can extend their time under water by using their cloaca like primitive gills. Look up cloacal respiration.

YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 277d

Do turtles have a cloaca?

Edit: just searched it, and they do.

TerrabyteMarx@quokk.au · 1 pts · 278d

Cloacin me crazy