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jscrick
at Sat May 16 12:58:42 2009 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by jscrick ]
I don't know about that, but in my personal experience it seems just the act of swallowing prey produces a great deal of mucous laden salivation, that immediately starts to degrade the food/prey item.
For instance, if a snake (Colubrid or Boid) spits up a half swallowed meal, the thing will continue to degrade, just with and where the mucous is attached to it. That crap is nearly impossible to wash off, too.
I'm pretty sure human salivation accomplishes the same thing, though not to such an extent.
Just my thoughts.
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