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11-11-12, 08:03 PM
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Woah...frogs eating snakes?
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11-11-12, 08:09 PM
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Re: Woah...frogs eating snakes?
cool picture
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11-11-12, 09:14 PM
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Re: Woah...frogs eating snakes?
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.
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11-11-12, 09:21 PM
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Re: Woah...frogs eating snakes?
In these pictures, The toad tadpoles have ganged up on a bullfrog tadpole and returned the favor. It was brutal to watch.
This one is almost fully morphed, the arrow is pointing to a metacarcariae cyst.
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.
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11-11-12, 09:30 PM
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Re: Woah...frogs eating snakes?
Interesting!
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11-11-12, 11:54 PM
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Re: Woah...frogs eating snakes?
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!
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11-11-12, 11:57 PM
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Re: Woah...frogs eating snakes?
Interesting info, infernalis
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11-12-12, 12:32 AM
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Re: Woah...frogs eating snakes?
awesome to both of you for the info!
makes sense.
aww fwoggies are cute! but aww poor snakie!
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11-12-12, 01:38 AM
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Re: Woah...frogs eating snakes?
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Originally Posted by jaleely
awesome to both of you for the info!
makes sense.
aww fwoggies are cute! but aww poor snakie!
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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.
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11-12-12, 01:48 AM
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Re: Woah...frogs eating snakes?
Also if you haven't tried them bullfrog legs are delicious. Hope I don't offend anyone by saying that but they really are.
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11-12-12, 02:26 AM
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Re: Woah...frogs eating snakes?
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Also if you haven't tried them bullfrog legs are delicious. Hope I don't offend anyone by saying that but they really are.
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The rear leggs are chopped off the live frog, and it's (still living) torso is thrown into the trash to die.
Still tasty?
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11-12-12, 02:52 AM
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Re: Woah...frogs eating snakes?
We always killed the frogs before cutting them up. Watching things suffer never did it for me.
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11-12-12, 03:07 AM
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Re: Woah...frogs eating snakes?
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We always killed the frogs before cutting them up. Watching things suffer never did it for me.
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Cool. I thought you meant from a restaurant.
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11-12-12, 04:14 AM
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Re: Woah...frogs eating snakes?
I always harvested my own frog legs.
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11-12-12, 05:23 AM
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Re: Woah...frogs eating snakes?
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.
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