Trivia Painted turtles survive winter by breathing through their butts

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Painted turtles survive winter by breathing through their butts​

Not all creatures head to warmer climates when it gets cold out, and that means they need to learn to survive in chilly conditions. You do not have permission to view the full content of this post. Log in or register now. need to adapt to frozen ponds, which restrict their access to the air above the water. They do that by breathing through their butts—specifically, the all-purpose orifice called the cloaca.

Thanks to a process called cloacal respiration, the turtles can get oxygen directly from the water around them.

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