Pet Turtles Have Little Need for Cloacal Respiration It’s highly unlikely that you’ll have to deal with reptilian butt-breathing if you have a pet turtle. That’s because its conditions in ...

Evidence of cloacal respiration did eventually come from research on Australian freshwater turtles, such as the saw-shelled turtle and the white-throated snapping turtle. The inner surface of the ...

Then there are other times when turtles breathe out the other end, more specifically, through what scientists call the cloaca ... a process called anaerobic respiration. And the byproduct of ...