What chemicals or modifications are need for a biological creature to be able to develop as natural/organic suicide bomb?

So in my world there's a creature as big as a common rodent or as big as a rabbit in size. They live in packs, usually burrowed, but occasionally come to surface to get food. The alpha male is tasked with protecting the pack, which he does by exploding himself near the predator and hopefully injuring/killing the predator from the flying body bits or distracting this predator with the flying bits of his meat giving the pack time to run away. The force generated is something like a grenade.

All of the land predators don't know the meaning of fear "” think of a honey badger "” so just trying to scare them won't work, and generally the land predator is fine with this since they get free meal and develop thicker or harder skin or armor but they still need to hurry to eat that meat before it's stolen by a flying predator or other predator, hence they can't keep on chasing on this prey, and a flying predator can't hunt this thing because they will just explode when carried, which is dangerous while flying, so they prefer to wait until this creature explodes to steal the meat.

And the base of my question in Chemistry.SE (which I just found out is gone, so I can't remember properly what it said or copy-paste it, so bear with me if I make a mistake; I am not knowledgeable about chemistry) there's no restriction for animal to not develop any explosive chemical component or chemistry naturally inside their body, stuff like that.

So I want to know what explosive chemical or gunpowder a biological animal could naturally develop, and what kind of organs would be needed to not endanger the creature themselves, before or outside of exploding.

• exploding due to just common gas like oxygen, water, fat/oil or ballooning like extreme pufferfish is out of the question, because that's too plain and boring; I want it to be explode as fast as a grenade; ignite and explode, no need for them to enlarge first before the rupture.

• and I want to base it off of explosive chemicals or gunpowder materials.

• the explosive chemical or gunpowder should be waterproof and fatproof or moistureproof since the creature has blood and i want it to be able to explode even when bleeding either internally or externally.

• all of the pack members must have this ability, not just the alpha male, with each having different explosive strength, depending on their size, the alpha male being the biggest.

• they rarely get a chance to experience old age before dying but when they do, they just go yolo and suicide charge on any animal outside of their pack, even specifically targeting a predator den to kill an infant.

• they can still explode, even when the creature is unconscious or losing their brain, so that ambush tactics won't work on them.

• not easy to explode from small shaking or impact or hit or bump since the creature do a lot of humping for reproduction purpose.

• not flammable or create flame and not easily combust or explode from general/common body temperature heat or small heat (but this can be exception if theres no chemical that can match my requirement)

• I haven't thought of their diet yet since I think their diet will related to their explosive chemical or gunpowder development or process, but generally I think they probably won't be carnivorous, but I am not going to exclude it if that's the only option to get this explosive chemical.

Feel free to edit my grammar and tag to the appropriate one since I am not sure which tag is better for my question.

posted almost 5 years ago

Li Jun‭

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