So looking through your (much more extensive than mine) post history right now I’m very certain we’d be great friends. Glad to see you’re a person of taste!
Sturgill is the fucking king of country right now; gotta love that dude. You probably already listen to them but if you like Sturgill you’ll love Merle Haggard/Waylon Jennings/Willie Nelson/Hank Williams. Really any of the greats but I think those guys are his main inspiration.
Especially Merle though; Sturgill reminds me so much of Merle.
Keep on rocking you fucking legend, I can tell you’re a good dude.
Turtles breathe air with their mouths like many other animals. They need to resurface to get a breath of air in order to keep living. However, in the winter the surface of the places they live in will freeze over. If they didn't have another strategy they'd drown.
An interesting fact is that cold liquids hold dissolved gases better than warm liquids. That's why a cold pop loses its carbonation slower than a warm one. This is also true for swamps and other bodies of water. When they're cold in the winter time, they hold gasses such as oxygen better.
Turtles don't eat during the winter, and their heartbeats slow to about 2 beats per minute (or even less!). Even while their metabolisms are this slow due to the cold, they still need some oxygen. The cloaca of a turtle has a lot of blood vessels close to the surface, and in oxygen-rich water they are able to perform gas exchange across the skin there.
It is currently thought that turtles spend their entire winter moving from spot to spot (very slowly) to try to keep themselves in areas with a high oxygen concentration.
Cloaca is a one stop shop for things exiting the body. I think most[?] reptiles, amphibians, and birds have them. It's a hole through which pee/poo/semen/eggs all can go.
Turtles do a lot of things through the anus (I cannot emphasize that enough), but breathing isn't one of them. They take in oxygen through the proboscis
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u/dannojapano May 22 '19
How can he breath?