Mary River Turtle, punk-haired turtle Breathe through a strange but real butt.

Many native animals from Australia look strange and weird, one of them is Mary River Turtle, a Punk-haired turtle that breathes through the buttocks.

habitat on the Mary River, Queensland Australia. Queensland has long been known as a paradise for native Australian animals from Platypus to Kangaroos. This place also allows tourists to hug the cute animal Koala.

Back to the story of Mary River Turtle, a strange but real Mohawk alias tortoise hair in Australia. Having the Latin name Elusor Macrurus, there is a strange body organ in this turtle. Yes, he does not breathe like other types of turtles that use the lungs under his shell.

The magical ability of Mary River Turtle breathes through a special gland called the cloaca, which is the anatomy of the body that is very close to the anus and the reproductive tract.

Because breathing through this buttocks strange haired turtles can be in the depths of water for three full days without the need to bother swimming to the surface to take a breath. Then what makes it possible to have Mohawk hair? Mohawk's hair is caused by algae growing on their heads, because he spends a lot of time while diving and is at the bottom of the water.

Really cool, there must be someone who wants to keep it at home. Unfortunately the Mary River Turtle is one of the amphibians that is protected and strictly forbidden to maintain. Because the species is rare and endangered.

For information, turtle breeding is very long unlike other animals. To reach sexual maturity they must be 25 to 30 years old. During adolescence to adulthood, they are vulnerable to being killed by other predatory animals, including being hunted by humans. Not to mention later after successfully laying eggs, of the dozens of eggs only a quarter were able to survive.