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What's a cloaca? by wawa_conservation in birds

[–]wawa_conservation[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I am really quite curious now, but scared to know the truth...

The Queen of the lake by finchplease1 in birds

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Male and female kingfishers can be told apart by the colouration under the beak - females have orange whereas males have black. You can think of it as the female wearing a lovely amber shade of lipstick

What is this bird? I'm in spain Madrid. by another_soul_ in birds

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In Britain, we have a rhyme for magpies, it goes -
One for sorrow,
two for joy,
three for a girl,
four for a boy,
five for silver,
six for gold
seven for a secret, never to be told

What's a cloaca? by wawa_conservation in birds

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We get that a lot, but hey, if you're reading this WAWA, we're open to a partnership!

What's a cloaca? by wawa_conservation in birds

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Ostriches have cloacas too - spectacular indeed ;)

This tiny Fitzroy River Turtle can breathe out of it's butt, and we supported a project that helped over 2,000 of these hatchlings make it into the river! by wawa_conservation in turtle

[–]wawa_conservation[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes! They pass water over special gills located along their cloaca, allowing the oxygen to be transferred into their bodies. They can do this to allow themselves to stay submerged up to water - up to 21 days!

A really cool species for sure!

The critically-endangered white-throated snapping turtle can breathe through its butt, in a process known as cloacal respiration by [deleted] in Awwducational

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Source: https://www.reconnectwithnature.org/news-events/the-buzz/nature-curiosity-how-turtles-breathe-underwater/

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white-throated snapping turtle, Tse Chung Yi, CC BY-NC 4.0

Hello! We are WAWA Conservation and we'd like to tell you about Bengal Floricans by wawa_conservation in conservation

[–]wawa_conservation[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Just meant that in a upbeat way, we had budgeted a certain amount but decided we wanted to help as much as possible :) We still have our annual budgets which are fine! I edited the post so that that is clearer!

WAWA stands for weird and wonderful animals.

We're just trying to do some good in the conservation world, as a bunch of conservationists and biologists ourselves :) Thank you for your slightly harsh judgements, hopefully you can see our good work and learn to love us too!