I enjoyed seeing the inside of an elephant last night
I was disappointed not to see giant knackers slightly
( glued eel /questions/questionsyoudliketoask/post1648081, Tue 30 Jun 2009, 14:11, archived)

I really wanted to see that
I hope they only used common garden tools to do it too and put make-up on him afterwards.
( Donkey Gums @mattcomedy, Tue 30 Jun 2009, 14:15, archived)

it was a lady elephant
I still don't quite understand the thing with the lungs though

how come they have that and whales don't?
( VampireMonkeyOnSpeed a super sexy sexual sex terrorist sex, Tue 30 Jun 2009, 14:17, archived)

maybe it's because whales just blob about on the surface not doing much
but elephants are actively swimming so need much faster gas exchange
( glued eel /questions/questionsyoudliketoask/post1648081, Tue 30 Jun 2009, 14:18, archived)

I guess whales only breathe when they come up,
not while they're swimming along.

Imagine a whale with a big trunk though, that would be awesome.
( Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Tue 30 Jun 2009, 14:26, archived)

what's the thing with the lungs?

( Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Tue 30 Jun 2009, 14:19, archived)

they don't have a pleural cavity, elephant lungs are attached directly to the ribs
so when their chest expands the lungs are forced to expand rather than rely on the negative pressure in the pleura like us,

they said it might be due to the pressure an elephant is under when it is submerged and swimming, using its trunk as a cool snorkle
( glued eel /questions/questionsyoudliketoask/post1648081, Tue 30 Jun 2009, 14:21, archived)

what's this?

( spangolin - the odds are good but the goods are odd, Tue 30 Jun 2009, 14:19, archived)

In that case they should have wabbed out her massive eleclit and boxed it like Mike Tyson having a 1996 flashback

( Donkey Gums @mattcomedy, Tue 30 Jun 2009, 14:20, archived)