There is a turtle that urinates through the mouth

The salty rivers, lakes and oxbow lakes inhabited by amazing Asian turtle - Chinese freshwater TRIONIKS. Amazing it is the fact that unlike most amphibians, urinating through the mouth.

This turtle lives in rivers, lakes and oxbow lakes, water that often, especially in summer, is much saline (though not as seawater). Because of this, an animal spends a lot of time on land. Periodically turtle crawls to the water, head down to 20-100 minutes, and thus celebrates the natural need.





When the head of the turtle is underwater, small growths covering her throat mucosa, excrete urea. Then the animal is still only score in the mouth a lot of water and spit it in the urine.

An unusual way of urination due to habitat turtle. If she deduced urea as well as all the other animals through the cloaca, she would have to drink a lot. But the water of rivers and lakes, where she lives, summer is not very suitable for drinking, so naturally had to invent another way.

Polina Kormschikova

via factroom.ru