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...