The most desperate thing in the world is to survive for a while, but the next second it will enter someone else's stomach and become its food.
When you are swallowed alive, everything in front of your eyes may be the last time you see the world.
As long as it is swallowed and digested by the intestine, no matter how cattle species are in their lifetime, they will eventually become excrement.
But creatures are always magical, some accept the arrangement of fate, accept death, "the next year is a good man";
Others are still fighting, using various ways to fight for their own chances of survival.
Today, let's talk about the animals that are desperately trying to survive, especially those that have been eaten into the stomach.
A heron flying with a snake?
This is a photo that was very hot last year, and the degree of popularity is like shooting aliens.
A flying heron, with a snake-like creature hanging on its body that shakes its head and shakes its head, can easily be associated with the picture of the alien breaking out of the chamber.
Could it be that the serpentine creature wrapped around the heron and took the opportunity to take a free trip?
It turns out that reality is harsher than imagination.
It turned out that the serpentine creature in the photo was the American eel, which was originally the food of the heron and was swallowed into the stomach.
But it was not reconciled, and with its own hard head, it broke out of a way of life.
The luck of the American eel was very good, it just so happened that the heron did not have much food in its stomach, and there was still a little air left, just so that the direction of the force was very accurate, and the skin and flesh in the drilled position were relatively thin.
But that doesn't mean it will survive.
The end result of the American eel and heron may be to enter the belly of the tiger-eyed fox.
For a long time of lack of water, the American eel will die, and the heron with wounds is also easy to burn and die, at this time, the fox is waiting for the opportunity.
Spit it out for me when you eat it: be careful that I will "spit fire"
Why haven't fire-breathing creatures evolved in the world?
Perhaps because combustion is not environmentally friendly, or perhaps because of fear of self-immolation, no creature dares to try the spitfire defense mechanism.
However, some insects can spew out extremely hot gases, and the cannon rifle armor is one of them.
When it encounters danger, it can spray a liquid with a temperature of up to 100 degrees Celsius, and when it is spewed out, it will become a gas, like a fart.
The liquid is mixed at the moment of release, and there are two storage chambers in the body of the cannon rifle, one for quinones and the other for hydrogen oxide. After the two substances are mixed, the reaction becomes scalding hot.
This defense mechanism is triggered when other mobs swallow the Cannon Rifle into their mouths.
Once the liquid is sprayed, it can only spit out the worm sadly, which is too hot to eat.
Experiments have shown that even if the cannon rifle enters the digestive system, it will find ways to get predators to spit it out. It also has a certain immunity to digestive juices.
Drill through the digestive tract and escape from the anus
For most insects, entering the frog's mouth means the end of life.
But some insects are very tenacious, and do not succumb to the frog's digestive juices, but pass through the frog's throat, swim through its stomach, follow the intestines, climb out of the frog's ass, although the whole body is full of feces, but live very well!
Japanese scientists have documented the entire process of insect escape.
Ecologist Sugiura often feeds frogs with beetles, and after feeding, he observes the frogs.
Once, Sugiura inadvertently spotted a shiny black beetle sneaking out of the frog's anus, and the beetle that was "pulled" out was as unharmed as if nothing had happened.
This surprised Sugiura, didn't the worm spit out of his mouth, but "pulled" out of his anus?
To this end, he conducted several repetitive experiments.
First, put the frog and this beetle in the aquarium, and in an instant, the beetle will be swallowed by the frog;
The frogs who have a full meal seem to be satisfied, playing leisurely in the aquarium;
However, after 115 minutes of eating, the beetle also appeared in the frog's anus, shaking and breaking free from the frog's intestines.
In the end, the frog did not die, and the beetle covered with feces lived well.
Such repeated tests were done more than 30 times in total, and more than 90% of the beetles escaped successfully.
Could it be that this frog is too weak?
So I changed 4 kinds of frogs to do the same experiment, and the result was the same, and this beetle could still crawl out of the ass.
What happens if the beetle's foot is glued?
The legs of the beetles were held together with wax and then fed to the frogs, and the results showed that none of the beetles survived.
It shows that the beetle comes out of the anus, which is the act of active survival, not being discharged by the frog.
This is the first time that prey has been documented escaping from a predator's body through the digestive tract.
This beetle is common in Japan, and they escape through the intestines of frogs, sounding easy but hard to do.
Think of the stomach acid in the body, the intestines that are curved and curved.
The whole process generally takes 4 hours, the longest is 6 hours, and the fastest takes only 6 minutes.
At last
Seeing the end, I suddenly found a truth: eating carefully and chewing slowly, it is very important!
For such an escape mechanism, while lamenting the magic of life, the evaluation of netizens is also brain-opening:
"Enoki mushrooms, if you don't chew them and swallow them, they will be intact when they come out tomorrow."
"Eat in, pull out, is it possible to cycle indefinitely?"
"Is the black beetle a master of intestinal passage?"