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What animal vomits

its stomach?

If we’ve eaten something bad, we can

regurgitate the contents of our stomach

to get rid of it. Some animals, such as

horses or rats, cannot – but frogs can

vomit their entire stomach.

A frog can
throw up its
stomach to
eliminate
toxic prey.

FAST FACTS

The frog can
weigh more than
3 kg (7 lb) – about
the same as a
newborn baby.
Frogs turn their stomachs
inside out to get rid of poisons
The world’s smallest frog is The world’s biggest frog is the in a process called “gastric
Paedophryne amauensis. At Goliath frog, measuring up to eversion”. Once the toxins are
just 7 mm (¼ in) long, it can 32 cm (12½ in) long – longer removed, the frog swallows its
sit on a US one-dime coin. than a regulation rugby ball. stomach back inside its body,
all in less than one second.

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