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It sports a green mohican, fleshy finger-like growths under its chin and can breathe through its genitals.
The Mary river turtle is one of the most striking creatures on the planet, and it is also one of the most endangered.
The 40cm long turtle, which is only found on the Mary river in Queensland, features in a new list of the most vulnerable reptile species compiled by the Zoological Society of London (ZSL).
A turtle with green hair and drawing breath thru its sex organs SHOULD be on the endangered list
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/apr/11/green-haired-turtle-that-breathes-through-its-genitals-added-to-endangered-list
fleur-de-lisa
(14,628 posts)NRaleighLiberal
(60,018 posts)Arkansas Granny
(31,525 posts)FSogol
(45,520 posts)uriel1972
(4,261 posts)pity the poor things gotta be almost extinct for it to happen tho...
eppur_se_muova
(36,281 posts)Feces, urine, future generations all flow through the same opening. At least as accurate to say it breathes through its anus (sound familiar ?).
The ability to "breathe" through the cloaca is shared by many turtles who spend winter underwater -- even under ice, buried in the mud.
BTW, a "Mohawk" is not a "Mohican".
potone
(1,701 posts)I'm tired of all the hippie-bashing going on! This is obviously a radical turtle.
sl8
(13,863 posts)From https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/Mohican
NOUN
British
A hairstyle with the head shaved except for a strip of hair from the middle of the forehead to the back of the neck, typically stiffened to stand erect or in spikes.
I was a nihilistic punk with a Mohican and a ring in my nose
as modifier a Mohican haircut
...
More at link.
The Guardian is a UK paper.
eppur_se_muova
(36,281 posts)Nitram
(22,853 posts)penis/urethra, and genitalia. Since most people are unfamiliar with the term, and it makes a good headline, I can see why they used the word "genitalia." The joke would have been lost if there had been a pedantic explanation of what a cloaca is.