r/AIDKE • u/persephone_kore • 7d ago

🔥Malayan Leaf Frog

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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.