Natural History Wanderings

The New York Times reported

For most animals, ending up in a predator’s stomach means all is lost.

But not for Japanese eels.In a study published on Monday in the journal Current Biology, scientists filmed juvenile Japanese eels staging Houdiniesque feats of escape from inside a predatory fish. After being swallowed and deposited into the fish’s stomach, the young eels swam up the hunter’s esophagus and escaped through an opening in its gills, much to the fish’s displeasure.

Read more at The Terrifying Way That Eels Escape a Hungry Fish’s Stomach