Reminds me of the German poem "Storch und Schleiche" [1] (LLM translation):
A stork once strolled by the pond's edge,
where he spotted a blind slow-worm, a hedge.
The stork exclaimed, "Oh, this is quite grand!"
and devoured it, all, without a reprimand.
The slow-worm lay in the stork's belly,
and both found this situation rather smelly.
The blind slow-worm then spoke with dismay,
"Such horror!" and slipped through the back door away.
The stork, vexed by this unhappy twist,
couldn't believe he'd let the slow-worm persist.
So, without hesitation or delay,
he ate the slow-worm again the same way.
He cleverly wedged the back door tight,
so the blind slow-worm could not escape his sight.
The stork called in, with a cunning tone:
"Well, if you can, try escaping on your own!"
The sly slow-worm found the front door clear,
and promptly made his escape with no fear.
But the stork, filled with anger and spite,
ate the slow-worm once more, sealing his plight.
In a crafty invention, the stork's mind did revel,
he connected both doors to secure his prey well.
Then, addressing the slow-worm inside without fail,
"Now get ready for a round trip, without fail!"
Yes, "my dog is covered in feces" does sound more elegant than "my dog just rolled in sh*t" - but how you articulate it doesn't improve the situation if the dog in question is sitting next to you...
“According to a Kobe University statement, this study marks the first time that researchers have witnessed prey quickly and actively escape the body of its predator after being eaten.”
I present my favorite video of the rough-skinned newt “actively escaping” from a bullfrog’s body after being eaten:
I feel bad for the beetle in this experiment. It must have spent a lot of its energy reserve to emerge out of the frog, probably to have been swallowed again.
Likely not. Animal trials are usually one use, to get the best data. And the animals in use get usually killed afterwards anyway. If you like animals, you probably do not want to learn too many details about it all.
This depends, I used to work at a biotech company and when the dogs there were retired from their trial, the employees would typically "adopt" them and try and give them another good couple of months.
They usually didn't make it very long but it's something. This was dogs though, so advanced stages of the trial, early stage vermin definitely didn't get the same treatment.
Side story: I did IT there and could access just about any building on campus, but whenever I had to go to the animal testing building to do whatever maintenance it was, I had a security guard escort and loom over me wherever I went. From what I was told they had an animal rights group infiltrate and attempt to release all of the animals a couple of years before.
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The accuracy and level of detail makes me speechless.
Then again, I saw the title and continued reading, so I knew what I was getting into.
At least I have more vocabulary for when my dog rolls in something on a walk.
A hilarious non-sequitur for the dog scenario.
I present my favorite video of the rough-skinned newt “actively escaping” from a bullfrog’s body after being eaten:
https://youtu.be/kvBi5Wv8-qg?t=99
Between 6 and 240 minutes... How come such a wild range? Some take time sightseeing?
The photos of the escape make me imagine the world's strangest motivational "hang in there" type of poster.
Likely not. Animal trials are usually one use, to get the best data. And the animals in use get usually killed afterwards anyway. If you like animals, you probably do not want to learn too many details about it all.
They usually didn't make it very long but it's something. This was dogs though, so advanced stages of the trial, early stage vermin definitely didn't get the same treatment.
Side story: I did IT there and could access just about any building on campus, but whenever I had to go to the animal testing building to do whatever maintenance it was, I had a security guard escort and loom over me wherever I went. From what I was told they had an animal rights group infiltrate and attempt to release all of the animals a couple of years before.
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(Sorry, it's the oh-so-appropriate punch line from a joke in McCabe and Mrs. Miller (1971).)