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    Gag order: For some toads, these beetles are hard to swallow

    by Sean Greene, Los Angeles Times Feb 07, 2018 2 minutes

    Bombardier beetles are known for their feisty response to predators. When confronted, the insects blast their adversary with a boiling-hot secretion of noxious chemicals.

    If they get swallowed anyway, they have a back-up plan: Blast their way out from the inside.

    In a messy experiment, scientists watched as a Japanese stream toad readily swallowed an Asian bombardier beetle. But

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