Turtle butts

Is it true turtles breathe through their butts?

Yuck …

Just … Yuck …

One of the questions Cecil prints at the beginning of the column isn’t so original:

The question comes straight out of Vonnegut’s Cat’s Cradle. In one chapter, Dr. Felix Hoenikker, nuclear scientist extraordinaire, suddenly asks this question apropos of nothing, and then completely loses interest in his important nuclear research and instead gets completely obsessed with studying turtles.

Plagiarism saves time …