• Zip2
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    3 months ago

    Are we sure they could vomit?

    • thedirtyknapkin@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      not sure, but 2 seconds is thinking about living animals tells us that that would probably bend over first.

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        3 months ago

        And 2 more seconds and you start wondering how many pints it would take.

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        3 months ago

        they absolutely could reverse peristalsis just like any vertebrate.

        AFAIK Horses cannot vomit, and I also was told that mice and rats cannot vomit.

        • ✺roguetrick✺@lemmy.world
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          3 months ago

          What I’m describing isn’t actual vomiting either, but more like regurgitating. Rodents can do that, though horses can’t (because they can’t even belch, they’ve got a one way valve).

          Ruminants like sheep and giraffes also don’t externally vomit but they do internally vomit which makes stuff change chambers in their stomach.

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            3 months ago

            Somehow the last part seems worse than vomiting. I know it isn’t, but eeww.

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              3 months ago

              Internal vomitting is when it comes out of your nose?

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        3 months ago

        They feed their young through regurgitation so they do have the ability! Now can it be projected at a distance? Hopefully someone can inform us lol.