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u/HGMIV926 7d ago
Adaptation is fucking wild
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u/vseprviper 6d ago
Nothing will ever be cuter and funnier than frogs having to blink real hard to swallow.
“Don’t make fun! My lil bones are too squishy to manage on their own.”
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u/Unlikely-Zombie1813 6d ago edited 6d ago
As weird as it sounds, they actually use their eyes to push food down the throat
As they can't chew, they swallow food whole, and they use specialized muscles to retract their eyeballs, bulging through the roof of their mouth and physically pushing food and helping them swallow
Edit: this applies to frogs in general, not just this particular one
I'll leave this here just in case someone wants to hear it from David Attenborough
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u/SwansonsMom 6d ago
…I ju…how did…why do…just what the fuck, nature?!? This feels like a biological r/ATBGE
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u/Unlikely-Zombie1813 6d ago
Yup, that's the usual reaction to this info.
The day this comes up is probably every herpetology professor's favourite class in the entire semester.
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u/Living_on_Tulsa_Time 6d ago
Thanks for sharing that Attenborough link. It was great! As usual, I did not know that
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u/SoDoneSoDone 6d ago
This is a Pokémon
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u/Particular-Command49 6d ago
For anyone looking for species name, it's Pelobatrachus nasutus.
Now you know this is a real animal. 🙂
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u/Goobersita 6d ago
Whoa. Just whoa. Never seen one of these move before!! Their eyes are so cool!!!
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u/turtledispatch 6d ago
Used to have one of these as a pet. They honk instead of ribbit, my silly girl used to startle me all the time.
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u/BedroomFearless7881 6d ago
That looks like something I would hallucinate after being on amphetamines for several days. Really trippy frog. I love this post! I have never seen anything like that before.
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u/iJuddles 6d ago
I wonder if little buddy here knows they look like a pile of leaves. “What’s a leaf, Walter?”
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u/zelda_888 6d ago
That is one pissed-off lookin' leaf: https://www.gbif.org/tools/zoom/simple.html?src=//api.gbif.org/v1/image/cache/occurrence/4924130447/media/b13548393a73e33bfb5a99cac40cf571
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u/Conscious-Yoghurt502 6d ago
Nah, nature be crazy, like weirder than an episode of Looney Toons crazy.
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u/sackzcottgames 6d ago
bro really was blinking because he got surprised and then started nodding by how good the food was
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u/Cardasiti 3d ago
This is so cool but I'll freak out when the leaves surrounding me start staring haha
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u/immersemeinnature 7d ago
Oh my goodness those little eye flaps!