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still really impressed about the discovery that the japanese water beetle can survive getting eaten by frogs because it combines its natural tendencies with just straight up walking through the entire digestive system at a brisk jog.

like they just fucking say no thank you and leave. this feels like one of the most insanely powerful adaptations i can imagine a creature having. like nah i can't do anything to stop the voracious predator of my biome from consuming me. Doesn't Mean I Give Up

in reply to NARFNra

I can't deal with the arrows in that diagram. They knew what they were dooooing. OMG it's so funeeee

Poor frog. I've had some bad meals but this has got to be a... "sensation"

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in reply to myrmepropagandist

@futurebird I mean, what even is swimming in a little chlorhidric acid juice for a bit before heading out? Nothing at all.
in reply to Adriano

@futurebird (I do not know if frogs do have chlorhidric acid juice in their stomachs like we do, maybe they don't)
in reply to myrmepropagandist

@futurebird Well ok, but I've had it on my skin and that thing *burns*. That bug be tough.
in reply to myrmepropagandist

@futurebird @adriano that is exactly what happens. Frogs do have gastratic acid. Ph 1 - 4. but the beetle has a very thick Chitin armour AND is activly speedrunning the part with the acid. (That's what i read somewhere)
in reply to David JONES

@drj
You have a diabolical mind and the frogs are horrified.

But also... if after they eat one of these they go and eat another I don't know what to tell them.

in reply to NARFNra

Brisk walk through this shit-show and get out the other side as quickly as possible: USA and another Trump administration.
in reply to NEURAL

@noondlyt
"Jog in a frog" being Seussian made me literally (and not figuratively, dammit, words have meanings) laugh out loud.
in reply to NARFNra

Going for my stupid walk through a frog for my stupid mental and physical well being.

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in reply to Pseudo Nym

@pseudonym
Remember to leave a sign on your door:
β€œOut taking a Frog Walk. Be back in a movement.”
in reply to NARFNra

Any idea how are they getting the oxygen they need to do so much work?
in reply to Joe Lapp, Bug Poet

@JosephTLapp my guess is what's in their blood is sufficient to fuel em for the walk.

be another bombshell revelation if they're respirating in there too! might as well move in at that point. πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚

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