Swallowed eel escapes from the stomach of predatory fish

Petoclane The Japananinkerias by the japanese can slip back out through the eater’s torture hole. To the surprise of the researchers, the eel does not immediately sneak into the gilt from the mouth, but is seeking momentum until the beast’s stomach.

Japanese The researchers got there as a barium sulfate, which appears in the X -ray, in the laboratory, in the laboratory.

Then they gave about five fifteen -dental dental strokes from over 30 eels one at a time and followed events from X -ray videos.

All the eels ended up at least part of their stomach, almost everyone tried to escape, and nearly a third succeeded.

They first pushed their tail torture, and it helped out their other body. The whole escape lasted on average less than a minute, researchers describe Current Biology in the magazine. There is also a speech in the study video.

Some of the eels that became swallowed up in the stomach in their entire length, there were going out there before their pursuit.

However, it was not worth the delay, as according to the observations the conditions of the stomach of the fish killed the eel that remained there in about three and a half minutes.

All individuals who mistakenly flooded their tail instead of esophagus in the direction of the intestine died.

Previously It has been noticed that not only the eels but also the swallowing horse -drawn and the water in the beetles can escape from the body openings of fish and frogs.

However, this was the first time we saw how the catch works in the inside of the predator to be able to be saved from there.