David Tipling / Bearded vulture (Gypaetus barbatus) adult swallowing leg bone along with hoof, Spanish Pyrenees, July. This bird swallowed five of these leg bones whole, they have the ability to dissolve the bone in...

Kim Taylor / Egg eating snake about to crush egg it has swallowed. Sequence 5/8 {Dasypeltis scabra} Africa

Kim Taylor / Egg eating snake swallowing egg, Sequence 3/8 {Dasypeltis scabra} Africa

David Fleetham / Oceanic whitetip shark (Carcharhinus longimanus) that has swallowed a hook and is trailing the fishing line. Hawaii, May 2004.

Jiri Lochman / Crested tern (Sterna bergii) juvenile entangled in a fishing line, likely cut off by a fisherman after the bird swallowed the hooked bait. Australia.

Jiri Lochman / Crested tern (Sterna bergii) juvenile, entangled in a fishing line, likely cut off by a fisherman after the bird swallowed the hooked bait Australia.

David Tipling / Bearded vulture (Gypaetus barbatus) adult with leg bone, Spanish Pyrenees, July. This bird swallowed five of these leg bones whole, they have the ability to dissolve the bone in their stomachs within...

David Tipling / Bearded vulture (Gypaetus barbatus) adult swallowing leg bone along with hoof, Spanish Pyrenees, July. This bird swallowed five of these leg bones whole, they have the ability to dissolve the bone in...

Pascal Kobeh / Green turtle (Chelonia mydas) that has just swallowed a jellyfish in open water, Cocos island, Costa Rica. Pacific ocean.

Mark Carwardine / Dead Bottlenose dolphin - swallowed fishing hook, Baja, Mexico {Tursiops truncatus}

Juergen Freund / Circle or C-hooks vs. traditional J-hooks of longline tuna fishing boat of Nutrindo Freshfood International, Sulawesi, Indonesia, October 2009. Changing from the classic J hook to C hooks can dramatic...

Mark Brownlow / Young men searing their body scars with heat after the initiation ceremony in which scars are cut into their flesh to represent the men being swallowed by a crocodile and reborn as crocodile-men, Papu...

Mark Brownlow / Young man with body scars from manhood initiation ceremony, said to represent the man being swallowed by a crocodile and re-born as a crocodile-man, Papua New Guinea, August 2007

Mark Brownlow / Young men after the initiation ceremony in which scars are cut into the flesh to represent the men being swallowed by a crocodile and reborn as crocodile-men, Papua New Guinea, August 2007

Mark Brownlow / Young man at initiation ceremony in which scars are cut into his flesh to represent being swallowed by a crocodile and reborn as a crocodile-man, Papua New Guinea, September 2007

Mark Brownlow / Young men searing their body scars with heat after the initiation ceremony in which scars are cut into their flesh to represent the men being swallowed by a crocodile and reborn as crocodile-men, Papu...

Mark Brownlow / Washing the wounds of young man who has recently been through the initiation ceremony in which his flesh is wounded to create scars that represent being swallowed by a crocodile and re-born as a croco...

Mark Brownlow / Young man carried along after initiation ceremony in which his body is scared to represent being swallowed by a crocodile and re-born as a crocodile-man, Papua New Guinea, September 2007

Mark Brownlow / Scars on the back of a young man who has been through initiation ceremony when his flesh is wounded to create scars that represent being swallowed by a crocodile and re-born as a crocodile-man, Papua...

Mark Brownlow / Young men searing their body scars with heat after the initiation ceremony in which scars are cut into their flesh to represent the men being swallowed by a crocodile and reborn as crocodile-men, Papu...

David Shale / Scaly dragonfish {Stomias boa} having swallowed a Lanternfish {Myctophidae} almost as large as itself, from the Mid-Atlantic Ridge

Piotr Naskrecki / Mottled Shovel-nosed Frog (Hemisus marmoratus) inflating itself to make itself more difficult to be swallowed by predators, Kruger National Park, Mpumalanga, South Africa

Kim Taylor / Egg eating snake swallowing egg, Sequence 4/8 {Dasypeltis scabra} Africa

Kim Taylor / Egg eating snake crushing egg it has swallowed. Sequence 6/8 {Dasypeltis scabra} Africa

Kim Taylor / Egg eating snake swallowing egg, Sequence 2/8 {Dasypeltis scabra} Africa

Roberto Rinaldi / Crocodile Man, scarification from the wagan initiation ceremony into manhood. The skin on the chest, back and buttocks of the initiate is cut with a bamboo sliver. The scars, when healed, represent th...

Roman Willi / Tree frog (Smilisca sp.) struggling to escape whilst being swallowed alive by Cat-eyed snake (Leptodeira septentrionalis), Osa Peninsula, Costa Rica, November.

Roman Willi / White ibis (Eudocimus albus) hunting with two others in the background. The bird catches a fish and then throws it to the back of its gullet, so it can be swallowed. Puerto Jimenez, Costa Rica.

Steve Gettle / African Rock Python (Python sebae) with swallowed Warthog (Phacochoerus africanus) prey, Masai Mara, Kenya

Doug Gimesy / X-ray of Australian white ibis (Threskiornis molucca) with fishing hook and line in its stomach, near heart. The bird acidentally swallowed the hook and surgery was required to remove it. Currumbin Wi...

David Hall / Wolf-eel (Anarrhichthys ocellatus) juvenile, with what appears to be the antenna of a recently swallowed shrimp protruding from its mouth. Nigei Island, Queen Charlotte Strait, British Columbia, Canad...