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Can Turtles breathe through their butts?
Yes. Although turtles breathe using their lungs like most animals, they also have a pair of sacs located within their butt, that take in water, and extract oxygen from it. So, they are capable of...
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Turtles can breathe through their butts?
Yes. However, it is technically not breathing. All turtles breathe through their mouths, however, some species of turtles have sacs in their butt that take in water, and extract oxygen from it. They...
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Do turtles breathe through their butt?
Yes and no. All Turtles, as do all vertebrate returnees to the water, breath air with their lungs. But some have in fact were built to extract additional oxygen through a pair of chambers at their...
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Does a turtle breathe through its shell?
It does not. A turtle has lungs and so breathes through its mouth. It inflates and deflates its lungs by flexing muscles at its leg openings (which alter the size of its internal cavity). These...
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Do turtles breathe though their butt?
Turtles have extraordinary anaerobic capacity--they have survived up to 33 hours in a pure nitrogen atmosphere. (Most reptiles have a high anaerobic capacity compared to mammals, but even they can't...