I really hope they fully cooked that takoyaki I ate…

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      If they weren’t too big or have to swim through all the digestive juices, it would be entirely possible

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      I mean, some octopodes are pretty small. The real issue is them moving through the GI tract. They might be flexible enough, but propelling themselves forward consistently would be the real feat.

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          Aye that’s part of what I was saying. Now, the argument could be made that if the octopus is smart enough to have the goal of moving through the tract, they could muscle open the sphincter. I haven’t ever tested an octopus against a sphincter. The controlled variable would have to be octopus size…

          Off hand, I think the sphincter would win out until the octopus is too big to fit through without rupturing other areas.

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      You would be correct, the Pylorus Sphincter stops anything larger than 1 to 2 millimeters in size from entering the intestines. Solids do not oass through human beings.