Toad eats toxic velvet ant and regrets it

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This toad swallows a venomous velvet ant. After 20 minutes inside the toads stomach, the velvet ant is regurgitated in a ball of mucous. It then begins moving and eventually crawls away unharmed. From: Mergler and Gall, 2020. Has the indestructible insect met its match? Velvet ants as prey to bufonid toads. Ethology Ecology & Evolution, 1-10.

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