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Fun Fact: Some species of turtles such as the painted turtle can essentially breathe through their butts underwater. The oxygen dissolved in the water is absorbed by the blood vessels in their cloacae.🐢🍑

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Additional fun fact 1: Birds are incapable of farting, hence why the ducks did not blame each other for the situation.

Additional fun fact 2: Based on their physiology, those two painted turtles are both supposed to be females - males have very distinctive long claws on their front feet. They're not really used for hunting, fighting, or digging - they're mainly for performing their mating display and for stroking the females' heads as part of courtship behavior. This is why the mismatched_sexual_dimorphism tag is there.

Additional fun fact 3: If you see continuous bubbles streaming from the bottom of the sea, ocean or any deep water, [b][u]do not swim above it.[/u][/b]

It's not about sea monsters or something. It's because bubbles are literally air, and you will sink down towards the origin of these bubbles faster and potentially drown.

It's like quicksand for water.