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Related: About this forumThe Secret to Turtle Hibernation: Butt-Breathing
By Jacqueline Litzgus, Laurentian University | November 25, 2017 09:10am ET
To breathe or not to breathe, that is the question.
What would happen if you were submerged in a pond where the water temperature hovered just above freezing and the surface was capped by a lid of ice for 100 days?
Well, obviously you'd die.
And that's because you're not as cool as a turtle. And by cool I don't just mean amazing, I mean literally cool, as in cold. Plus, you can't breathe through your butt.
But turtles can, which is just one of the many reasons that turtles are truly awesome.
More:
https://www.livescience.com/61018-turtles-breathe-through-butt.html?utm_source=notification
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The Secret to Turtle Hibernation: Butt-Breathing (Original Post)
Judi Lynn
Nov 2017
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Solly Mack
(90,803 posts)1. That is cool
Binkie The Clown
(7,911 posts)2. I beathe out my butt whenever I eat beans. Well, I exhale that way. nt
safeinOhio
(32,756 posts)3. Explains that look on
Mitch McConnell's face.
3catwoman3
(24,133 posts)4. Turtles must be Democrats.
If they were Republicans, they would be talking out of their butts.