Animal Survival Skills: Poison Edition

The video explores the gag reflex and vomiting in animals. It explains how humans use these reflexes to avoid choking and expel toxins. Horses and rats have unique adaptations due to their inability to vomit. Horses rely on diarrhea, while rats use pica behavior, consuming clay to bind toxins. Turkey vultures, capable of vomiting, use it as a defense mechanism, thanks to their highly acidic guts that neutralize harmful bacteria.

What unique adaptations do turkey vultures have regarding their digestive system?

Discuss the role of diarrhea in horses as a method of toxin elimination.