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2012 Reading Challenge

2012 Reading Challenge
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  1. rhamphotheca: ichthyologist: Eating yourself to death The Black Swallower (Chiasmodon niger) has a stomach that can expand to 3 times its original size. It is known to literally eat itself to death. In this case, the swallower managed to swallow a 86cm long horse mackerel (swallowers are around 20cm long). The meal was so large that it began decomposing inside the gut instead of being digested. Gases were produced as a result which meant that both meal and predator floated right to the surface! Image: Barcfost rhamphotheca: ichthyologist: Eating yourself to death The Black Swallower (Chiasmodon niger) has a stomach that can expand to 3 times its original size. It is known to literally eat itself to death. In this case, the swallower managed to swallow a 86cm long horse mackerel (swallowers are around 20cm long). The meal was so large that it began decomposing inside the gut instead of being digested. Gases were produced as a result which meant that both meal and predator floated right to the surface! Image: Barcfost
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    ichthyologist: Eating yourself to death

    The Black Swallower (Chiasmodon niger) has a stomach that can expand to 3 times its original size. It is known to literally eat itself to death. In this case, the swallower managed to swallow a 86cm long horse mackerel (swallowers are around 20cm long). The meal was so large that it began decomposing inside the gut instead of being digested. Gases were produced as a result which meant that both meal and predator floated right to the surface!

    Image: Barcfost

    (Source: ichthyologist-2)

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