gullet

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Mobula rays feed by swimming open-mouthed through plankton-rich regions of the ocean and filtering plankton particles into their gullet as water streams into their mouths and out through their gills.

From Science Daily • Nov. 25, 2024

That would be the mass equivalent of 370 suns a year disappearing down a cosmic gullet 11 billion years ago at the dawn of time.

From New York Times • Feb. 21, 2024

The birds swallowed the franks whole, straight down the gullet.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 1, 2022

Unlike other birds, the male bittern does not use its voice box but muscles around his windpipe to expand his entire gullet into an echo chamber.

From BBC • Mar. 25, 2022

The pressure of trains passing in far-off tunnels pushed the air around like breaths in some great creature’s gullet.

From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs