The Fitzroy River Turtle (Rheodytes leukops) AKA the "bum-breathing turtle".
"The turtle draws in water through its bottom (cloacal vent), extracts oxygen from the water and then squirts it out again. It can obtain as much as two-thirds of its oxygen and survive up to four days by breathing this way. This adaptation allows the turtle to avoid predators and concentrate on finding food."
How funny is that?!
2007-04-19 05:13:24 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
http://www.qccqld.org.au/rivers_alive/Turtle.htm
2007-04-19 05:13:35 · update #1
I like the term 'cloacal vent.' I want to have one installed.
2007-04-19 08:23:51 · answer #1 · answered by jessewclark 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Got one better than that one for you...
Duck-Billed Platypus...
Egg-laying mammal with a poisonous barb on its foot. I think God must have been just sitting around one day and said: "Hey... I wonder what would happen if I mixed this mud with that stuff over there and.... oops! Now that doesn't look quite right...Wait! no, it's cool, I'm God!... So we'll just let man try to figure THIS one out. Bet we'll be laughing up here for a thousand years off this one!!!!"
Not trying to be sacreligious, but you gotta admit, God designed some pretty wierd things. Don't believe me? Look at your feet. Can you figure out why you have those separated toes, and why they have to look like THAT? And what is the purpose for the little split in your nose? The immediate cavity right behind the facial bone is open and both nostrils feed into that cavity, so why the split?
Laugh a little people when you think of the craziness of God. Scripture says the folly of God confounds the wise. This is just another example.
2007-04-19 05:30:24 · answer #2 · answered by Simple Man Of God 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
To the Fitzroy River Turtle is most likely seems VERY practical.
Nature is full of odd and wonderful creations
2007-04-19 05:18:10 · answer #3 · answered by williamzo 5 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Just remember that the same God that intelligently designed this oddity, designed a whole range of other "wonders"; the platypus, the echidna, the coelocanth, the monolithic fundamentalist, mental illnesses...
There's no getting away from an inconvenient "truth".
2007-04-19 05:27:53 · answer #4 · answered by Orac 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
'The turtle is a medium to dark brown colour and short-necked'. The colour is probably too obvious to comment on, but if i were being irrigated colonically with such regularity, I reckon I might be a bit high-shouldered as well.
2007-04-19 11:33:49 · answer #5 · answered by altered ego 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If you think the way an engineer would, you realize that for a desired function in a given environment, there are trade offs to make.
Based on the laws of physics, there are only so many things you can do, only so much you can pack in a given space.
Before we are too hasty in dismissing this as some sort of divine embarassing mistake, examine what sorts of trade offs were made and ask if they make sense or not.
Tom
2007-04-19 05:20:26 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
Of course they can. The character God is assigned all the unusual aspects of nature.
2007-04-19 05:19:35 · answer #7 · answered by strpenta 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I can certainly believe it more that God designed this one (or anything else for that matter)
rather than
it just spontaneously "poofing" into existence by some chance connection between atomic particles.
2007-04-19 05:43:10 · answer #8 · answered by Mrs.M 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes, it just proves God has a sense of humor!
2007-04-19 05:20:47 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
THAT reminds me of a joke: "Sex is a lot like air; it's not very important - unless you aren't Getting Any" !!!! ROFL
2007-04-19 05:40:08 · answer #10 · answered by Bill S 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋