What happens to fish that are swallowed whole?

[Santa]

Where's David Attenborough when you need him!

Trying to decide whether to be killed by asphyxiation or stomach acid.

 

[Santa]

I just read in "Mysteries of the Sea" that sperm whales have been found with live fish and squid in their stomaches.

... And that old guy tending his float.

 

[Hank49]

I shot a barracuda Saturday that had a fish (about an 8 inch grunt) in it's stomach. It had just eaten as the belly was a little distended and he didn't feel like swimming as I zeroed in on him to shoot. This fish had been killed by being bitten in half....the tail was eaten first, then the other half. It looked pretty ugly like some acid or something was eating away at the scales and skin.

 

[OBXDIVEGUY]

Dive Chronicles has an article about a fisherman that caught a fish, and found a live baby turtle in it. The turtle was taken to a rehab center, and was swimming around at the Florida Dive Show last week. Pretty neat story.

 

[Jim Lapenta]

What really happens tho is what you see in finding nemo. If it's a whale they get blown out thru the blowhole, and if its a bigger fish they tickle his insides till he laughs them out. Or they turn the door knob on the one tooth and go out that way when he's asleep.

 

[cyklon_300]

here's a little light reading if you're truly curious about this topic.

http://www.fao.org/docrep/X5738E/x5738e02.htm

 

[archman]

here's a little light reading if you're truly curious about this topic.

http://www.fao.org/docrep/X5738E/x5738e02.htm

Great link cyklon! I'm copying this to my computer archives. Sure beats lugging texts around...

 

[StSomewhere]

If the fish can speak whale, he/she can just get a ride to Sydney

I... ...have... ...to... ...tell... ...him... ...how... ...old... ...sea... turtles... ...are!...