2020-08-03 | Watch: This animal uses "predator defecation" as a way to escape death
'New research delves into how some aquatic beetles can survive being devoured by, essentially, prompting the frog to defecate. '
'"This study is the first to document active prey escape from the vent of a predator and to show that prey may promote predator defecation to hasten escape from inside the predatorĂ¢\x80\x99s body," Sugiura writes. ', "When a living beetle makes its way through a frog, it's a faster-than-usual process."
'The bizarre beetle evolution suggests that perhaps other aquatic insects, like these water beetles, have escapist adaptations of their own. '
'Sugiura is the first to document this remarkable escape and describes the process in a letter published Monday in the journal Current Biology. '
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'New research delves into how some aquatic beetles can survive being devoured by, essentially, prompting the frog to defecate. '
'"This study is the first to document active prey escape from the vent of a predator and to show that prey may promote predator defecation to hasten escape from inside the predatorĂ¢\x80\x99s body," Sugiura writes. ', "When a living beetle makes its way through a frog, it's a faster-than-usual process."
'The bizarre beetle evolution suggests that perhaps other aquatic insects, like these water beetles, have escapist adaptations of their own. '
'Sugiura is the first to document this remarkable escape and describes the process in a letter published Monday in the journal Current Biology. '
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