"A deadly butt sprinkler." The bombardier beetle's backside is packing some serious heat
Bombardier beetles are hiding a secret weapon up their butts: the ability to shoot a boiling mix of irritating chemicals out of their behinds to escape predators! 💦
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A bombardier beetle stores two chemicals — hydrogen peroxide and hydroquinone — in separate sacs in its abdomen. When threatened, it quickly releases the chemicals, which mix and shoot out its butt at temperatures up to a scalding 100 C.
In Butt Seriously, a documentary from The Nature of Things, Anthony Morgan shines a light where the sun doesn’t usually shine. Why we have butts, how they evolved and how to keep yours healthy.
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