why predators that eat their pray whole (snakes, lizards, birds, frogs, fish, etc) don’t have their insides completely torn apart when they swallow an animal that is still alive?

Question

I understand venom, but I’ve seen a lot of videos of live animals still alive when a venomous snake is killed and cut open

In: Biology

Answer 1

Most of the time they are already dead (see: constrictors or teeth) but their insides are pretty squishy, so if the prey doesn’t puncture anything, it will just die inside them from the chemical processes of digestion.