• enkers
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      1 year ago

      That’s a good question… I think for this to work properly, the digestive tract can’t just stop in the middle, they’ve got to be plumbed together into series. That means the first one would have to be disconnected, so if it was left in, it wouldn’t be functional in its typical evolutionary context.