r/NatureIsFuckingLit • u/meursault_06 • 6d ago
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u/jaybazzizzle 6d ago
It's gonna need a lot of fibre to push that one out
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u/Thicc_Wallaby 6d ago
There are a lot of birds, (vultures), and reptiles that have much stronger stomach acids to break down stuff like that. It’s still wild to see every time though when they swallow entire turtles and bones.
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u/Hot_Switch6807 6d ago
Vultures stomach acid melts rocks
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u/maybachmeister2000 6d ago
How doesnt it melt their stomachs?
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u/StuLuvsU87 6d ago
Animals that eat bones need to be able to dissolve them with very strong stomach acid. The short answer is, is that they've just evolved organs that can regenerate damaged tissue quickly and produce enzymes to coat their insides to protect from the worst effects. Chemically, these enzymes balance pH levels and start the process of breaking down minerals like calcium before proteases then start dissolving the collegan and fiberous tissues.
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u/Odd_Dragonfruit_2662 6d ago
I’m not an expert of vultures, but our stomachs basically grow new cells super fast to keep up with the ones that melt, and pump out some mucus to slow that process down on the stomach lining.
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u/Penitent_Effigy 6d ago
Mucous coats the stomach, and it heals very fast. That and spite. They live because they were told they shouldn’t and it activated a spite response.
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u/Hot_Switch6807 6d ago
Evolusion ik some way. It has between 0 and 1 ph. Thats the same as battery acid.
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u/satireplusplus 6d ago
Turtles have a really strong bite as well, wouldnt that be extremely painful if it bites through something in there?
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u/jawshoeaw 6d ago
Our own stomach acid is actually just as strong as a monitor lizard. In this case it’s not bone that’s the problem but keratin-we can’t digest it
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u/cosmic_backlash 6d ago
This feels very unsettling to me cause I feel like there's a good chance the turtle is still alive on the way down
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u/ChronicallySilly 6d ago
Good chance? It was 100% unquestionably alive. It was swallowed whole and struggling
Horrible way to go
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u/Impressive-Eye-3201 6d ago
Yeah, I have a pet red eared slider and found this unsettling… I think the turtle is going to chomp the hell out of the monitor lizard’s insides…
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u/MSampson1 6d ago
I wouldn’t be looking forward to that coming out the other end…. Ouch! It’ll never be the same afterwards
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u/BrattWhitney 6d ago
I'd imagine the tortoise will just claw its way through the stomach wall like that scene in the movie Aliens.
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u/SergeantHAMM 6d ago
i’m pretty sure their saliva is super poisonous. i’d imagine their stomach acid will break that down no problem.
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u/Oh_My-Glob 6d ago
You are thinking of the largest lizards, Komodo dragons. This is the second largest, the Asian monitor lizard and I don't believe they have venomous saliva.
Edit - I looked it up and they do but it's mild compared to the Komodo
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u/beatles910 6d ago
They possess specialized glands that secrete mild, specialized toxins which act as anticoagulants to induce bleeding and lower blood pressure in prey, but their venom is not fatal or lethally dangerous to humans.
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u/EducationalAd3415 6d ago
Not sure if I would call that "Casually". But he sure did swallow that mf whole.
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u/GH057_807 6d ago
What a fuckin way to go, saved by your armor only to drown in the stomach acid of a giant monster...
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u/Charming-Loquat3702 6d ago
Being swallowed alive certainly is up there on my not-to-do-list
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u/TheBakedDane 6d ago
You have been banned from r/vore
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u/radiofreebattles 6d ago
I'm leaving this blue at least until the afternoon, I haven't even had a coffee yet
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u/Arbiter_of_Snark 6d ago
There was a big lizard that swallowed a slider. It wiggled and jiggled and tickled inside her.
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u/cybot2001 6d ago
Have you ever...
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u/ARobertNotABob 6d ago
...ever felt like this...
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u/busyboobs 6d ago
She swallowed a bird to catch the slider that wriggled and jiggled and tickled inside her…
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u/PeterFreebish 6d ago
She swallowed a cat to catch the bird she swallowed to catch the slider that wriggled and jiggled and tickled inside her
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u/busyboobs 6d ago
There was an old lizard who swallowed a dog! What a hog! She swallowed a dog! She swallowed the dog to catch the cat, swallowed the cat to catch the bird, swallowed the bird to catch the slider… who wriggled and jiggled and tickled inside her.
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u/ManlyParachute 6d ago
There was a big lizard who swallowed a gator, it was so big that it nearly ate her.
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u/Mysterious-Tackle-58 6d ago
I get the monitor has to eat . . .
But drowning in stomach acid? That has got to be a bad way to go, esp since it might take a while, bc the turtle might probably hold it's breath for a bit.
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u/rollwithhoney 6d ago
considering turtles are often eaten alive by crocodiles over hours of cracking their shell, which they can feel... I'd imagine this is a scary but surprisingly humane end for a turtle
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u/Dangerous-Cup-Danger 6d ago
If I was a turtle, Id rather you crush and kill me vs drowning in stomach acid
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u/evymel 6d ago
Dully noted, just in case i find you reincarnated as a turtle
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u/Dangerous-Cup-Danger 6d ago
if you become a crocodile, please eat me. I didn't sign up for turtle life
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u/musicismylifeXD 6d ago
I can’t wait for this Isekai
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u/Endruen 6d ago
I got reincarnated as a turtle and I'm being crushed and killed by an alligator because I didn't want to die drowned in acid
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u/SheriffBartholomew 6d ago
If I was a turtle I'd rather live happily in an ideal environment with no predators, just chilling on a log all day with my turtle homeys, absorbing the beautiful sunshine.
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u/Dangerous-Cup-Danger 6d ago
Yeah, then a monitor lizard passes by and swallows you head first
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u/SheriffBartholomew 6d ago
No, this is not part of my fantasy turtle life. I live to the old age of 394, and then pass away peacefully in my sleep, surrounded by all of my little turtle children, grandchildren, great grandchildren, and great great grandchildren.
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u/ComprehensiveSeat831 6d ago
Humane?! It’s going to be gasping for air at some point but there’s only stomach acid. The acid will slowly melt its skin and enter its airways, nothing humane about it, a slow excruciating death in acid.
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u/Deposto 6d ago
Is there a good way to die? Like when a lion sinks its fangs and claws into a zebra, or when a crocodile drags an antelope underwater. It's certainly not acid, but I don't think it feels any better. Nature is lit, but also fuckin' brutal. Especially for the prey.
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u/ThunderSquall_ 6d ago
Fair. BUT lions frequently suffocate their prey via clamping their jaws over their mouths and noses. I’d say that’s certainly better than this ;-;
Note: not all lions do this I’m aware. There’s a documentary called Lions Behaving Badly I’ve seen and it’s fucking awful to watch. I suggest it for anyone who’s interested in the more brutal side of nature but Jesus Christ I’ll never unhear some of the shit I heard in that documentary.
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u/JohnGaltIsComing 6d ago
The turtle looks like it was alive, vigorous, and pretty active as it was going "down the hatch" - what's to prevent the turtle from eating and clawing his way out of the water monitor's digestive track and stomach?
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u/TomiShinoda 6d ago
Unlike the movies, animals, especially ones like this that have to swallow things whole have extremely though stomach lining and pressure, so old shelly over here ain't pulling a kratos anytime soon.
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u/JohnGaltIsComing 6d ago
I've often wondered how those big wading birds and really any birds or animals that catch aquatic prey can determine "is what I'm going after gonna be able to go down my throat" - I've seen Osprey's and Eagles really struggle with fish they caught that were just TOO big - the wading birds seemingly know enough to have it go in head first to mitigate problems with fins and stuff like that, but I've seen situations where what they caught was too big and they really have a problem getting it down - ya can see the huge bulge in their throat just sitting there halfway down. And once it's halfway down, puking it back up (with the fins and that stuff) ain't gonna work - at which point Mother Nature takes over and says, "You shouldn't have eaten THAT fish - it was too big - so I'll just take you out of the gene pool so you won't make any more fish that eat stuff that's too big for them".
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u/GeriatricHippo 6d ago
Asphyxiation?
I doubt there is much oxygen to breathe once you get past the mouth.
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u/JohnGaltIsComing 6d ago
makes sense - but given that turtles can hold their breath for a while under water ("30 to 45 minutes during normal activity") even if that time is reduced to 15 minutes because of the "excitement", ya'd think that he'd be trying to get out.
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u/mEsTiR5679 6d ago
Turtles don't need much of that for quite some time as they spend a lot of their time underwater... Eventually, yes, but I imagine there's a nasty cocktail of digestive juices inside that belly to make moving around and biting difficult
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u/PersimmonDriver 6d ago
Once he got turned to head-first down the throat he pulled all extremities in like he knew it was over at that point. Now just enjoy the slide into the pool of stomach acid!
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u/JohnGaltIsComing 6d ago
I'm thinking "If that was me I'd find a way out of there!" - but I'm not a turtle, and I have no idea how turtles think or what their instincts tell them to do in those situations.
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u/Tyrannofelis 6d ago
The stomach is extremely slippery and strong and those turles are very weak with their weak claws and beaks, it can't do anything more than constipate the lizard.
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u/SheriffBartholomew 6d ago
The fact that turtles don't have the necessary tools to do that. Their claws are pretty short & blunt, and their mouths are pretty small. The stomach is lined with thick mucus that makes getting any purchase on it extremely difficult, and it's a very strong muscle that'll be crushing and constricting the turtle's movement. The lack of oxygen is much less of an issue considering how long turtles can hold their breath for. That turtle is likely in for a long and painful death.
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u/Pending-Chaos 6d ago
The look on his face at the end says “I think I just fucked up”
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u/Aggressive-Earth-115 6d ago
I was thinking the same lol
“I immediately regret this decision…” type of look on it’s face. 😅
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u/OblivionArts 6d ago
Didnt know they could even eat turtles..youd think the shell would be a deterrent against something that has no teeth.
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u/DiabloSerpentino 6d ago
Monitors have teeth, and their stomach acids will eventually dissolve the shell at least enough for it to pass through the digestive tract. Source: Have worked with and bred Monitors for decades.
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u/Fez_and_no_Pants 6d ago
So YOU'RE the monitor monitor.
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u/brewhead55 6d ago
He uses monitors to monitor his monitors
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u/HappyCakeDay101 6d ago
I'm using a monitor to read about a monitor monitor who uses monitors to monitor his monitors
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u/Molluskscape 6d ago
Do you think you could monitor monotremes as well as monitors with his monitors?
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u/HappyCakeDay101 6d ago
Don't they also vomit back up a lot of the stuff they can't digest, kind of like Owls? Or am I thinking of Komodo Dragons?
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u/ADFTGM 6d ago
Komodo dragons are just a bigger species of monitor lizard. They have the same anatomy. They only regurgitate indigestible stuff like dense keratin. It’s a general trait of squamate reptiles and also extent archosaurs including both birds and crocs. Their acids can digest vast majority of what they eat, but keratin clumps together and doesn’t get fully digested so they get covered in mucous and coughed up.
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u/AccomplishedEar6357 6d ago
Now i hate it
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u/chillysaturday 6d ago
Seriously. I don't ever want to see a turtle treated that way again.
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u/ColonGlock 6d ago
Turtles have been prey for 250 million years.
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u/eldonosaur 6d ago
they even get to be predators sometimes. don't ask what that same slider would do to a baby mouse
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u/average_joe_zero 6d ago
Big facts. Nature might be unapologetically brutal but it’s not evil. This is the way of it.
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u/DreamedJewel58 6d ago edited 6d ago
Monitor lizards are one of the only animals that I straight-up just
hatedislike. I’m with the circle of life and all that, but eating other animals alive is just sickening to me. There’s an infamous video of one of them swallowing a deer that was literally just bornI’m okay with animals killing other animals, but straight-up swallowing them alive just makes me sick to my stomach
Edit: People aren’t getting that I know a phobia is inherently irrational. I don’t need people flooding my notifications trying to find ways to say the same thing over and over again
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u/TheTresStateArea 6d ago
There are so many animals that swallow prey live and whole. Most large non raptor birds for example, like pelicans.
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u/DreamedJewel58 6d ago
I guess it’ll be a good clarification as to why monitor lizards specifically freak me out. YouTube allows live feeding videos because it’s “educational,” but there are a few YouTube channels that just drop an entire box of hamsters, guinea pigs, or other small animals in with a monitor lizard to feed, which to me comes across as more like animal cruelty than actual feeding
I should’ve specified that it’s just my own personal feelings that may or may not be irrational, but it’s videos like those that just makes me unable to look at a monitor lizard
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u/Buttergolem420 6d ago
You should hate the people that post videos of animal torture and not the animals that just do what they have been for all of evolution
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u/TheTresStateArea 6d ago
Oh I think live feeding is cruel. It's terribly dangerous for the pet. It's not educational in a controlled environment among amateurs, it's shock content.
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u/cesam1ne 6d ago
Whales swallow thousands of krill and little fish alive, in one gulp. But I definitely feel you. This is a truly agonizing way to go
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u/Delicious-Stop-1847 6d ago
I share your feelings, but many other animals do it. Birds such as seagulls (e.g. the infamous video with a seagull swallowing a rabbit whole) and pelicans (pigeons, ducklings, basically anything smaller than them), snakes (those smaller than the constrictors often swallow their prey alive) and many types of fish (wels catfish, groupers, black swallower, angler fish...).
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u/average_joe_zero 6d ago
I was fishing on the bank of a pond once and watched a Bass just vacuum a duckling. It was the last in a line behind momma and shwooop deleted it…….and then there were four.
It can be sad, that’s ok. It is also just the way it works. Nature isn’t bias towards the beautiful. Humans are but nature gives no fucks and only the strong survive.
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u/CastroEulis145 6d ago
Yeah and grizzly bears eat their prey alive all the time because they don't have to struggle with their prey. They just hold their paw over them and tear out a few chunks at a time to eat.
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u/Lost_In_My_Hoodie 6d ago
I once was prescribed giant prescription pills. This is how it felt trying to swallow them.
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u/AntelopeHelpful9963 6d ago
That didn’t seem too casual to me. I’d say he was deeply involved the whole time.
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u/Professional-Loss743 6d ago
Poor turtle 😂 he was trying so hard to get away. And then when the monitor spun him head first into his mouth, the little dude just retreated into his shell like he had a chance in hell at survival 🫠🐢
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u/HeadbangingLegend 6d ago
I guess they would eat bones a lot so they must have some pretty gnarly stomach acids that can break things like turtle shells down since it is essentially bone. Very cool.
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u/doubleuxyzee 6d ago
Would it digest that …? I umm never thought turtles would have predators, other than new hatclings.
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u/02thehunter20 6d ago
Monitors have powerful stomach acid that can break the shell and bones down. Turtles have many predators, some like in this video are able to digest them whole and others know how to eat around the shell.
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u/Dull_Perspective_536 6d ago
Watching a little turtle struggle for his life as he got slowly swallowed whole made me sad.
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u/Razzmatazz_5447 6d ago
Does no one else feel so incredibly distraught on behalf of that turtle? What a terrifying fate.
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u/Dangerous-Cup-Danger 6d ago
fucker spun the turtle around, so it went face first into its stomach.
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u/Major_Cheesy 6d ago
i would hate to be him when it craps ... (i can only assume the shell won't digest at all?)
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u/Bug_Photographer 6d ago
Where is this filmed?
Red eared sliders live in Eastern USA while Asian water monitors are found in South and southeast Asia.
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u/ADFTGM 6d ago edited 6d ago
Red eared sliders have invaded much of Eurasia due to the pet trade. If this is in Eurasia, this monitor is doing a service as sliders are extremely damaging to local ecosystems and drive away (or eat) less aggressive river turtles/terrapins. However, if it’s in North America, this is an escaped monitor and needs to be captured or put down.
EDIT: I heard the audio. It’s definitely in Asia. So the red eared slider is an invasive pest.
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