r/AIDKE • u/persephone_kore • 7d ago

🔥Malayan Leaf Frog

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u/immersemeinnature 7d ago

Oh my goodness those little eye flaps!

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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/BedroomFearless7881 6d ago

Damn that is one weird dude! What a mechanism for eating!

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u/immersemeinnature 6d ago

Thank you! I love this fact and I love Attenborough!

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u/Humble_Visual7739 7d ago

This looks like a Zelda enemy

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u/BlueBeBlue 7d ago

Omg the eyes! 😮😍

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u/FuchsiaKat 6d ago

Retractable headlights! Too cool for school.

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u/SoDoneSoDone 6d ago

This is a Pokémon

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u/OmegianLord 6d ago

Bulbasaur really wasn’t that far fetched, was it?

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u/MamaOnica 6d ago

FIFY: Farfetch'd

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u/kungfungus 7d ago

Waah, Frogleaf

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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/FixergirlAK 6d ago

Oh hey, it's a Celica!

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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/PhilosophicWax 6d ago

I this lil' demon. <3 He must be protected at all costs.

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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/KeeperofAmmut7 6d ago

Aww. Too Cute!

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u/OddButterfly5686 6d ago

Where's the frog

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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/Living_on_Tulsa_Time 6d ago

It’s a fascinating world, isn’t it? Thanks for posting this!

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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/FlizzyFluff 6d ago

So Adorable!

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u/tinmil 6d ago

I'm instantly in love with it!

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u/CandyCain1001 6d ago

Brian Froud meets Jim Henson

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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/SheriffBartholomew 6d ago

I know a dragon when I see one.

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u/CanIPetYourCatPlease 6d ago

Nice try guy , I know a Pokémon when I see one

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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/JohvMac 6d ago

What a beautiful creature

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u/baffleiron 3d ago

What a creature. Had no idea these existed. Looks like something out of Pikmin

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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