Woah...frogs eating snakes?

[Pareeeee]

I always knew frogs had big appetites but this?? lol. Wow.

http://static.themetapicture.com/media/funny-frog-eating-snake.jpg

http://media.treehugger.com/assets/images/2011/10/frog-eats-snake.jpg

Advice to all...keep evil plotting frogs
away from your snakes!
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_KCm8fGFe0J8/S2n6O9wcC6I/AAAAAAAAKVQ/s1AmAlsI_oo/s400/Frogs%2520eating%2520habits1.jpg

[promdom]

cool picture

[infernalis]

The north American bullfrog (I have NO clue how many I own, but it's a lot) is a ravenous carnivore from birth.

They intentionally lay their eggs where toads, newts and smaller frogs have already laid eggs so that the tadpoles can eat all the "lesser" tadpoles.

Adult bullfrogs also will hunt along the waters edge for unsuspecting baby garter snakes and water snakes that arrive to prey on the tadpoles.(a delicacy to baby Natricine colubrids)

Frogs are the number two predator, just below birds that consume mass amounts of baby snakes in the wild.

[infernalis]

In these pictures, The toad tadpoles have ganged up on a bullfrog tadpole and returned the favor. It was brutal to watch.

http://www.reptard.info/pic/deadTad2.jpg

http://www.reptard.info/pic/deadTad.jpg

This one is almost fully morphed, the arrow is pointing to a metacarcariae cyst.

http://www.reptard.info/pic/tad1.jpg

A tadpole of this size can and does easily inhale many of those toad tadpoles a day. Screw mosquito larvae when you can have big macs.

[Rogue628]

Interesting!

[RobsCornField]

Wayne, you are an absolute wealth of information. I never would have known that about bullfrogs. Thank you to you and the OP for sharing the pictures!

[Pareeeee]

Interesting info, infernalis

[jaleely]

awesome to both of you for the info!

makes sense.

aww fwoggies are cute! but aww poor snakie!

[infernalis]

awesome to both of you for the info!

makes sense.

aww fwoggies are cute! but aww poor snakie!

Works both ways... The snakes that make it to adulthood like frog for dinner too.

In fact, the San Francisco garter snake dines almost exclusively on red legged frogs from the same area.

[Roadtrash]

Also if you haven't tried them bullfrog legs are delicious. Hope I don't offend anyone by saying that but they really are.

[infernalis]

Also if you haven't tried them bullfrog legs are delicious. Hope I don't offend anyone by saying that but they really are.

The rear leggs are chopped off the live frog, and it's (still living) torso is thrown into the trash to die.

Still tasty?

[Roadtrash]

We always killed the frogs before cutting them up. Watching things suffer never did it for me.

[infernalis]

We always killed the frogs before cutting them up. Watching things suffer never did it for me.

Cool. I thought you meant from a restaurant.

[KORBIN5895]

I always harvested my own frog legs.

[Terranaut]

We used to get frog legs when I was a kid and we also killed the frog first. Then we used it for fish bait. They are fantastic but you gotta have/kill a few frogs to make a meal out of it so I haven't for years.

[StudentoReptile]

I know some snake breeders who use Pacman frogs and Pyxie frogs as "quality control." Really good, relatively small easy carnivores to easily dispose non-feeder baby colubrids or deformities.

[Roadtrash]

I've never eaten frog legs in a restaurant we always gathered our own. Haven't been in years though.

[jaleely]

i could see that, student. my pyxie is 7 inches and a dash. He'd gladly eat smaller snakes if i let him.
Nature is as nature does. I'll stick to feeding fish and rats as i don't get attached to those and they arrive already dead lol

wane i've heard of restaurants in the south doing that. i didn't really think they still did it.

[infernalis]

I filmed this yesterday.. Yes, tadpoles in November.

Bullfrogs take 24 months to morph into a frog.

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[Rogue628]

i could see that, student. my pyxie is 7 inches and a dash. He'd gladly eat smaller snakes if i let him.
Nature is as nature does. I'll stick to feeding fish and rats as i don't get attached to those and they arrive already dead lol

wane i've heard of restaurants in the south doing that. i didn't really think they still did it.


Trust me, they do. A couple of the places I worked sold frog legs. They're usually found wherever 'seafood' is advertised or the main food.

This makes me miss some of the food back home I know I'll never get (at least properly, even if I fix it) here :( I'm going to have to go back home to get some real crawfish, frog legs, gator sausage, and boudin next year.

[iBaman]

mann i want to try frog legs =[ I don't know where to find frogs here, though =[

[Lankyrob]

We had Sweet and Sour frogs legs in a chinese restaurant in Paris, was GORGEOUS - tho they taste like chicken :)

[Revenant]

Yeah, I was a little disappointed at first when bullfrogs showed up in my yard. I like bullfrogs a lot, but in no time the garter snakes and tree frogs were GONE. Those two populations had survived the feral cat infestation, but there is nothing a bullfrog isn't going to cram into it's mouth. Any big frog or toad population is going to be a lot like a plague of locusts.

[Roadtrash]

Bullfrogs in your yard? Never had any in the yard they were always around the pond or the creek bank.

If fixed right way better than chicken.