Turtle Turtles are mammals. They don’t actually have a nose. Well, they do. But they prefer not to use it. Instead they breath through their butts. From a Louisiana study from 1994 they discovered that turtles created a new kind of species that can breath out of their butts. There are 86 different kinds of species that can breath through their butts. Some different animal family that are in this strange species, (later named “Athroughpocus”) is the tiger family and the lion family. Some species of dogs are in this family. For example, a poodle.