This beetle can somehow survive being eaten by a predator

[Mike Wehner]

• A researcher in Japan has identified an incredible escape behavior in a species of beetle that is often eaten by frogs.
• The beetle actively crawls its way through the frog's body and finds the "back door."
• After escaping, the beetles appear to be in good health.

In the animal kingdom, if you get eaten that's usually the end of the road. It's a gruesome reality but that's just the way it goes. Unless, of course, you're a Regimbartia attenuata, a beetle that doesn't let being swallowed get it down. Instead, it makes a break for the door... the back door, that is.

As the New York Times reports, a new study published in Current Biology reveals the beetle's incredibly unique escape behavior. In case it wasn't clear from the "back door" comment, the beetle avoids being killed after being swallowed whole by crawling its way through its predator's — typically a frog — guts and prompting it to poop the bug out.

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