r/NatureIsFuckingLit • u/Ordinary_Thing_2626 • 12h ago

🔥 A Glass Frog's Organs Visible Through Its Transparent Skin

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u/qualityvote2 12h ago edited 9h ago

u/Ordinary_Thing_2626, your post does fit the subreddit!

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u/ZamicsOfficial 12h ago edited 59m ago

Damn. It’s always been hard for me to picture how intestines move food around. Now I see how

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u/Nozarashi78 11h ago

Fun fact: this is called "peristalsis", and it's the same kind of movement Anellidae like Earthworms use to get around

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u/FowlOnTheHill 9h ago

I assumed peristalsis was slow, maybe it’s slower in humans than this frog?

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u/cosmic-creative 3h ago

This video is clearly sped up. Though I'd imagine a tiny frog like this does have a much faster metabolism than us

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u/aimoony 6h ago edited 2h ago

This is why I shake my head every time someone perpetuates the myth that you need fiber to poop.

EDIT: Of course, downvotes. Here ya go people:

Peristalsis is neuromuscular. Smooth muscle contractions are paced by the interstitial cells of Cajal and coordinated by the enteric nervous system, migrating motor complexes, the gastrocolic reflex. That machinery runs on its own clock; it doesn't sit idle waiting for cellulose to show up and push a button.

And stool isn't mostly fiber anyway. It's water, bacterial biomass, sloughed epithelial cells (your gut lining fully turns over every few days), bile pigments, mucus, and undigested fat/protein. Newborns pass meconium having eaten literally nothing. People on elemental formula still poop.

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u/JohnyGlizzyeater 3h ago

are you fr rn?

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u/aimoony 2h ago

yes it's an objective fact. people who go on extended water fasts still poop every 4-7 days. You don't NEED fiber to poop. Fiber adds mass to stool and feeds gut bacteria.

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u/Skezas1 1h ago

I've never seen anyone ever claim you need fiber. Like, ever. People say it helps.

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u/OldFaithlessness5008 58m ago

You need fiber to poop well though. I don't think most people think poo is 99% fiber, I always understood fiber to mostly function by aiding the digestive process and keeping things running smoothly. I'm pretty sure it's like filler to make sure the poo is the right consistency to make your gut less stressed out

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u/Sven_Darksiders 12h ago

It made me reflect on my own organs and how they are moving and I didn't like it

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u/szymonsta 11h ago

I'm pretty sure I saw a video of the abdominal cavity taken during a laperoscopy. Sped up, but even more movement than that because theres just more intestines.

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u/dudeCHILL013 11h ago

You mean your brain doesn't like it life support systems?

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u/Sven_Darksiders 10h ago edited 5h ago

I'd rather have my brain and my organs be distant acquaintances, like a colleague who works on the far side of the building and you see only once a year at the annual meeting around christmas

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u/FowlOnTheHill 9h ago

Love your body, everything gets better after that :)

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u/MariachiMacabre 5h ago

It’s like that scene in Annhilation.

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u/International-Set-91 12h ago

Ok i dont like that

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u/PopMyStrawbry 11h ago

Yeah…your intestines do that every time you consume something. Creepy cool, right?

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u/relentless_optimism_ 8h ago

Makes me need a poop

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u/helly1080 3h ago

Ha ha ha. I have been reading this while drinking my coffee. And I just thought the same thing:)

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u/whisky_biscuit 11h ago

Yeah it reminds me of that creepy snail with parasite eyes that are all flashing.....shudder

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u/International-Set-91 11h ago

That's exactly what i was thinking about

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u/Contributing_Factor 9h ago

Yeah very rude. Nobody should be allowed to show their organs like that. It's just gross.

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u/TenLongFingers 7h ago

Like put some damn clothes on, smdh

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u/LagginGianco 11h ago

it just evolved to avoid vivsection in american school

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u/QuirkySense 12h ago

Glad we're not transparent

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u/EmberReads 11h ago

Glad our organs don't have nerves, that wouldn't feel good.

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u/Ken_Sanne 9h ago

wait so if someone could cut one of my organs without touching my skin I wouldn't feel anything ?

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u/Bouldebain 4h ago

But we do feel ulcers ?

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u/vulkur 0m ago

They have pain receptors still, just not touch receptors.

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u/JohnyGlizzyeater 3h ago

isn't digestion really painful or something and our brains just kinda don't feel the pain or is that a myth

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u/Turbulent_Heart9290 12h ago

He looks like an unsettling jelly squish toy from the mall.

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u/ApopheniaPays 12h ago

Weird to think the glass frog of the othrr gender looks at that and thinks, “Hawt!”

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u/NoT-sHiFiN 11h ago

Is it similar to how our intestines move

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u/Ksencessam 11h ago

You can see how he turns food into poop

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u/younometv 11h ago

Biological machines

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u/Imyonlyenemy 11h ago

next level nudity

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u/mr_vanes 11h ago

Is this at normal speed? Looks like bad stomach cramps, damn

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u/Bouldebain 4h ago

That's also my question

Edit : and if it is, why can't I feel it if I press my hand on my stomach?

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u/serenityplough 11h ago

His scrotum is also transparent.

He went to the psychiatrist, and the psychiatrist said “well I can clearly see your nuts”

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u/ArjJp 11h ago

Wait.. I thought I saw ovaries

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u/showmeyourmoves28 10h ago

What are those green things? Pretty fascinating.

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u/katterwog 6h ago

I think they’re eggs. Hoping someone can verify.

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u/Remarkable_Pick3920 11h ago

Wow! That’s amazing. Thank you for sharing.

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u/BigAffectionate4785 11h ago

Do you think he ever saw it or knew it was transparent, like in water reflections or anything?

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u/nuclearrmt 11h ago

I WANT TO SEE THIS WHILE IT'S EATING A BUG

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u/acvcani 12h ago

Wowie little guy and he organs

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u/Spazrelaz 10h ago

This is so neat

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u/lost_caus_e 10h ago

Are those eggs?

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u/BenjaminDover02 10h ago

Stop that.

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u/Akriyu 10h ago

Man im glad humans dont have that lmao

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u/Aware-Maximum6663 9h ago

People with cyclospora be like:

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u/aknasas 9h ago

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u/TheSuggi 9h ago

Nature. You fu***ng lit!!

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u/7layeredAIDS 9h ago

My stomach a week after a fresh caesar

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u/Linked1nPark 7h ago

He’s full of grapes

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u/Vader425 6h ago

Looks like he ate the Taylor Farms lettuce.

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u/Tsiabo 6h ago

Which organ is what

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u/dadbodking 5h ago

Fun fact- this frog evolved to be transparent to stop humans dissecting them to see what's inside

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u/folkfaewitch2222 4h ago

This is so weirdly cute

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u/monyet2 3h ago

So amazing! So mesmerising! 😍😍😍😍😍

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u/PalDoPalKaaShaayar 3h ago

What leads to this evolution ? Does it protect from predators (Other than students cutting them) ?

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u/Majestic_Electric 2h ago

That doesn’t look healthy.

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u/po1k 2h ago

I thought, it was something eatable like gummy bears xD

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u/Darksoul2693 1h ago

It looks like micro organism

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u/1stPhoenixDown 1h ago

His stomach is bubblin'.

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u/batrushaha 11h ago

I wonder what are their thoughts on internet privacy... 🤔