Fred's Fun Fact About Turtles

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Fresh Show is on Bread's Fun fact.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
Breads fun.

Speaker 1 (00:11):
So much.

Speaker 3 (00:11):
God, did you know the turtles can breathe through their butts? Oh,
turtles can breathe through their butts?

Speaker 1 (00:25):
So cool.

Speaker 3 (00:27):
Turtles hibernate sort of hibernation is called rumation, okay, and
they don't require much oxygen when they're doing that. But
what they need they can't get by breathing like they
do in the warmer parts of the year. I guess.
Instead they use other forms of respiration, which is kind
of like breathing through their butts. The technical term for

(00:48):
butt breathing is cloacal respiration, and it's not quite like
the breathing that you do, even though turtles do that
when they're above water. I guess. The respiration means that
turtles get oxygen from the water by moving the water
over their body surfaces covered in blood vessels. Turtles have

(01:08):
a butt that has a lot of blood vessels, I guess,
and so the most efficient way to get oxygen is
through there. Hence the term cloacal respiration because it's called
a cloaca. I guess they're boody and uh, they breathe
through their butt? No, you breathe out through your butt
all the time. That is very different

Speaker 1 (01:30):
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