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* There is a video on youtube of a ''cow'' of all things eating a ''baby chick alive''. There's also one of a ''deer'' eating a ''bird''. [http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/news/press/ontape.htm Apparently this is not as unusual as it sounds,] at least for the deer.
* Swallowing live prey is more common in nature than you might think. All amphibians and most fish swallow all their prey alive, and a good number of reptiles and birds will at least do this to small prey. And of course there's anything that eats ants or krill/plankton which simply gulp their prey down by the dozens, if not hundreds.
* One of the most nightmarish diseases in real life is [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Necrotizing_fasciitis necrotizing fasciitis], aka "flesh-eating bacteria". Many who contracted this horrid infection often survived only after infected areas were amputated. One notable case was science fiction writer Peter Watts, who after recovering, wrote: "I’m told I was a few hours away from being dead...If there was ever a disease fit for a science-fiction writer, flesh-eating disease has got to be it. This...spread across my leg as fast as a ''[[Star Trek]]'' space disease in time-lapse."
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