Hi, so I just saw a video of a little bird eating a bee. And it made wonder: How does the bee being at least a bit alive (and angry!) while swallowing not hurt the birds when eating? I feel the same way about other animals who tend to swallow their prey whole e.g. predatory fish, owl who swallow mice and so on. I imagine it would hurt a lot to have an angry animal thrashing with all their might from within. 🙁
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The pray might indeed bite, claw, sting, etc. their predators. In general this is a risk that the predator is willing to take. The wounds it would get from the pray are less then the problems of not eating. This is why you sometimes see predators ignore what looks like easy pray, as they know that the pray might fight back and hurt them. So they tend to shy away from pray unless they are hungry.
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