No Mouth-breathing whales

Whales cannot breathe through through their mouths (like people can). Their trachea (the tube to the lungs) and esophagus (the tube to the stomach) are not connected.”

-I did not know that, until today.
Unless they become expert belchers, whales would have to talk through their blowholes.

So, oversized-bottle corks are now plausible lethal weapons. Excellent!

The same is true of horses, rats, mice, and probably hundreds of other species. People have been known to kill their poor horses for insurance money by stuffing plastic bags up each nostril.

I know this is terrible, but I find myself giggling uncontrollably picturing this.

:frowning:

:smiley:

Why would poor horses have lots of insurance money? How would stuffing anything up your nostrils affect them?

Puzzled in Punxsutawney.

Horses are notorious connesuers of physical humor so essentially they die laughing.

Yes, surely you’ve heard of the horse laugh.

I must’ve skipped zoology that day. However, thanks to the Dope, I do know that turtles can breath through their butt.

I assumed this was a follow-up to the ‘personal ad cliché’: no head games’ thread.

Wouldn’t it just be easier to stick a plastic bag over the horse’s head? Or would the horse rebel?

Rebel? I can’t imagine it rebelling any less than it would having its nostrils stuffed with plastic bags.

I’m still giggling reading this thread. I need help!

Ah, now you’ve got me going…

It would certainly help while getting it to your enemy’s bedroom, saving that messy, tedious, cleanup phase.