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Fighting With Your Guts

When threatened, sea cucumbers expel their internal organs. Their digestive systems contain poisonous acids and enzymes that repel predators, and even sometimes kill them. Sea cucumbers occasionally lose their entire digestive systems to this gut-expulsion, but the organs grow back quickly.

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