When this beetle is eaten by a frog, it crawls through the frog's guts to escape out the other end (video)

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Originally published at: When this beetle is eaten by a frog, it crawls through the frog's guts to escape out the other end (video) | Boing Boing

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The beetles wiggle and jiggle and tickle inside the frogs!

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“Further experiments are needed to investigate how to stimulate the frogs to defecate,” Sugiura adds.

I can’t wait to see the NSF grant application for that study.

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If that’s not a metaphor for ‘when you are going through shit, keep going’ I don’t know what is.

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We have had this before:

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Whoa!

Note to self: new idea for diet food, you eat it and it crawls out before you can digest it!

ideaman

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That frog was calm AF, didn’t even flinch.

I would have a very different reaction.

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Wow, do beetles usually live 3 years? :stuck_out_tongue:

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Call Starkist.

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Movie GIF

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The original expression was actually water beetle out of a frog’s back.

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Just like Tony Stark.

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Hmmm…
I speculate that the frog eats those beetles when it feels constipated.

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WEEEELLLLLLLP, that’s enough internet for today.

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2QsF

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I’ve eaten at that Chipotle

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I don’t know why she swallowed a… beetle?

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Five seconds later, frog eats the beetle again

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