Escape from the frog vent (1 Viewer)

[Tapxe]

Introducing Beetle Pliskin...

Frog Eats Beetle. Beetle Crawls Through Guts to Escape

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[Dago]

That's pretty amazing

 

[BlackandGoldXLIV]

Chew your food!

 

[Yatman]

alimentary, my dear watson

 

[0rion]

Think I've had those at taco bell before

 

[guidomerkinsrules]

alimentary, my dear watson

I just collapsed in giggles
Thank you for that

 

[Bronson]

In carefully designed lab experiments, Sugiura found that 93 percent of the beetles he fed to the frog Pelophylax nigromaculatus escaped the predator’s “vent”—aka anus—within four hours

Honey, I need to "vent"

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[guidomerkinsrules]

ventral (adj.)
1739, from French ventral or directly from Late Latin ventralis "of or pertaining to the belly or stomach," from Latin venter (genitive ventris) "belly, paunch; stomach, appetite; womb, unborn child," from PIE *wend-tri-(source also of Latin vesica "bladder," Sanskrit vastih "bladder," Old High German wanast, German wanst "paunch, belly"), perhaps from root *udero- "abdomen, womb, stomach" (

 

[Dago]

So will they able to do this if a human ingests them?

Asking for a friend