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How does an eaten worm die?

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Ok, don't read this if you're eating...

I always wonder how an earthworm dies after it's eaten whole by a newt. The way that even when there's just the tiniest bit sticking out of the newt's mouth, it still moves...it just makes me wonder. Is it slowly dissolved by stomach juices? Or crushed?
 
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excellent question. I assume being dismantled by digestive enzymes will eventually do them in. Maybe they die before that from lack of oxygen. I doubt it's a quick death, and it's probably a blessing that, not being equipped with a prefrontal cortex, the unfortunate worm does not have the hard drive to ponder his fate philosophically.
 
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