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Greedywoozle — Jaw structure for vore preds
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Possible realistic and unrealistic jaw designs for predators.Related content
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This is intresting. Even if I just find the anatomy part fun.
Does most of your voring creatures have an extendable and high mounted trachea to avoid choking on prey? It's seen on many snakes.
Have you read about the Lophiiformes? A type of fish that swallows things whole with a mouth vaccuum. Famous for the "fishing rod" formed by a fin that can be dangled close to it's mouth to lure things close. One of the fastest swallowing things as observed and fish does not likely even realise what happened.
Stomiiformes are another intresting type due to being mostly teeth, stomach and eye. A larger exemplar (exact species unknown right now) was found with a 2 metres octopus inside. If they see a large gathering of fish they are most likely to just open their jaws and go right forward, not chewing or anything. Some eat themselves to death due to lacking the responce that tells them their stomach is full. They might also start to float towards the surface once the food starts to digest and cause gasforming. They lack any control of rising themselves and then die from the pressure change when they are to close to the surface.
Lastly I find your hungry gold dragon funny for some reason. Even if dragons must be hard to swallow due to the long tail as seen in the images. Does he swallow the tail after rearranging whatever meal he has eaten a bit?
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While I do not address it in the drawing, at least some of my preds have an entensible trachea along the lines of a snake's. My skunkette lamia sisters definitely have one. Strega herself has a set of breathing slits behind her front legs that allow her to address the issue. With other preds, I usually don't mention the problem of breathing beyond "It's difficult (but not impossible) to breathe while swallowing prey." This actually became a plot point in a recent story because the predator was attacked while eating and had trouble defending itself because it couldn't breathe well with a throat full of food.
There are quite a few fish that feed by suction feeding. Sea bass (groupers) are suspected to have swallowed humans before...maybe. It's never been witnessed but they are on the list of suspected man-eaters. Carpet sharks often vacuum up quite large prey, including other sharks, and frogfish will suck in and swallow prey as than they are ([link] ). Then there are Gulper Eels and Black Swallowers and on and on. The sea is a vorish place. 83
I haven't run out of gold dragon ideas yet. A while back I did a couple of pictures of a behir ([link] ) swallowing a white dragon. Someone suggested that the gold dragon could be swallowing a White from one end as a behir swallows the same White from the other end. "This could end several ways. I'm hoping for the one that leaves me too full to move for a week." 83
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Thanks for this. I often wondered about jaws in vore.
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You are welcome. One of these days I need to do one for worm type jaws.
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Very good anatomy of various predator jaws you have there.
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I forgot worm/mollusc and insectile, but insectile isn't suited to soft vore anyway. I may add worm, though.
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Worm sounds good. I would like to see how that would work with a furry predator.
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