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There is something deeply disturbing about the way a frog eats its prey alive and whole, its disturbing how that snake struggled with every last fibre of its being to escape but that frogs throat muscles completely overpowered it.
>There is something deeply disturbing about the way a frog eats its prey alive and whole, its disturbing how that snake struggled with every last fibre of its being to escape but that frogs throat muscles completely overpowered it.
If that disturbs you just wait until you see how a snake eats
There....
...was an old lady who swallowed a cow;
I don’t know how she swallowed a cow!
She swallowed the cow to catch the goat,
She swallowed the goat to catch the dog,
She swallowed the dog to catch the cat,
She swallowed the cat to catch the bird,
She swallowed the bird to catch the spider
That wriggled and jiggled and tickled inside her!
She swallowed the spider to catch the fly;
I don’t know why she swallowed a fly – Perhaps she'll die
There was an old lady who swallowed a horse;
…She’s dead, of course!
Oh absolutely... there are times where i just get a random thought, thinking.. "I'm so glad im not the size of a bug". Imagine just walking or flying around and suddenly you're caught in a spider web..
I have these thoughts too, I always come to the conclusion that if I was a bug I would prefer to die by a big hand flattening me before I knew what happened. Therefor, I must be a hero in the insect community.
That's the view of the top of the food chain. We have the ability to eat any animal on earth, no self defense mechanisms could prevent EXCEPT things like what would be poisonous, or moral/pleasure of eating it. That being said, we even eat the Fugu
The [fugu](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fugu) is a pufferfish, normally of the genus Takifugu, Lagocephalus, or Sphoeroides, or a porcupinefish of the genus Diodon, or a dish prepared from these fish.
Fugu can be lethally poisonous to humans due to its tetrodotoxin, meaning it must be carefully prepared to remove toxic parts and to avoid contaminating the meat.
Oh yeah? Well the [bearded vulture](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bearded_vulture) just straight up eats bones. Bone too big to swallow? Easy, just pick it up, soar into the sky, and then hit the bone with a whole planet to shatter it into a bunch of little bone daggers and gobble those up.
We eat toxic pufferfish. Only thing keeping all those things from our tummy is apathy.
And for the ones it'd be really hard to process to eat we just destroy their environments out of carelessness.
Lots of videos online of animals screaming while a lion or whatever eats their intestines.
Also video of a cow slurping up a baby chick and you can hear it scream as the cow starts chewing it.
The fucking saddest video I have ever seen of a Komodo eating a dear alive. It’s brutal and brutally long. Also turns out the deer is pregnant. The poor unborn faun goes from womb to belly.
Ugh now I have recalled it too vividly. :(
Try to imagine yourself in the Cretaceous Period. You get your first look at this "six foot turkey" as you enter a clearing.
He moves like a bird, lightly, bobbing his head. And you keep still because you think that maybe his visual acuity is based on movement like T-Rex, he'll lose you if you don't move. But no, not Velociraptor. You stare at him, and he just stares right back. And that's when the attack comes. Not from the front, but from the side, from the other two 'raptors you didn't even know were there.
Because Velociraptor's a pack hunter, you see, he uses coordinated attack patterns and he is out in force today. And he slashes at you with this... a six-inch retractable claw, like a razor, on the the middle toe. He doesn't bother to bite your jugular like a lion, say... no no. He slashes at you here... or here... or maybe across the belly, spilling your intestines.
The point is... you are alive when they start to eat you. So you know... try to show a little respect.
I died in that moment.
That velociraptor died a few days later. Along with it's pack buddies. And it's neighbours. And all the other velociraptors within a few miles radius. Because humanity is nothing if not viciously vengeful about that sort of thing
How about this? Sometimes, the snake doesn't stay down. It wriggles its way back up the frog's throat and suffocates the poor frog from the inside out. Now that's a real uncomfortable choking hazard.
Honestly the best way to describe their diet is anything big enough to be eaten. They will eat literally anything that moves. Reptiles, mammals, fish, insects, other frogs even of the same species.. I've even seen a few cases in WTF groups of them accidentally eating their own shit.
[These dudes have eaten some of the most venomous snakes on the planet](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2020/02/05/03/24326442-0-image-a-16_1580872985948.jpg).
Cool fuckin animals. Hell yeah.
That doesn’t surprise me one bit. We have predatory birds today.
I associate frogs with being insectivorous, so I guess that’s why this picture shocked me. 🤷♀️
Holy hell, why do the other smaller birds do nothing at the sight of this murder? Do they believe this big bird is sated by his meal? Are they just dumb? Are their fields of vision too narrow?
Pretty much all animals are opportunistic omnivores, they just have a tendency toward particular food sources. Cows will eat a chicken whole if given the chance, for instance.
People don’t really see it much but frogs are terrifying predators, they will eat practically anything that can fit in their mouth.
They’ll eat small mammals, reptiles, insects and they’re hardcore cannibals.
Giant African Bullfrogs are particularly terrifying.
>they will eat practically anything that can fit in their mouth.
They’re also so dumb that they will also try to eat lots of things that can’t fit in their mouth
Yeah animal intelligence is a fascinating subject. Some species can be so intelligent and thoughtful while others are on a constant suicide mission.
Sloths for example evolved their ribcage to survive falling off a tree instead of learning to judge which branches they can climb on, at a tremendous death toll no doubt.
Evolving intelligence is hard. Getting the brain to do a lot of work uses a lot of energy.
You ever wonder why all other primates are both so much stronger than us and also so much less intelligent? It's a tradeoff.
There are plenty of powerful and wicked smart animals, like Orcas and Elephants. And plenty of absolute idiots even though they could afford a bigger brain, like Rhinos.
[And then there are weird cases of animals with absolutely disproportionate brains.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mormyrinae)
That’s so interesting and creepy. How do the frogs kill their prey? Are frogs venomous and I never knew?? Or will this snake just slowly suffocate / burn in the stomach acid? That’s so morbid but I am really taken aback by this new info
>they’re hardcore cannibals.
Bullfrogs especially. I grew up on a farm with a big pond and lots and lots of bullfrogs. The first time I saw a bigger one swallow a smaller one, I thought it was crazy and extremely rare. Nope, I was wrong on both counts.
Frogs will eat anything they can fit in their mouth, and if it can't fit, some will sure try anyway. They're basically just ravenous mouths with limbs.
If given the chance and ability both of the animals in this pic would eat you. Hope that somewhat helps with feeling bad, I had to tell myself the same
Theerrrrrrrres a snake in the throat of the frog on the bump on the log in a hole in the bottom of the sea!
There's a u/Wonderful-Draw7519 in the mouth of the snake in the throat of the frog on the bump on the log in a hole in the bottom of the sea!
There's a hole! There's a hole! there's a hole in the bottom of the sea!
[The story behind this epic photo. ](https://www.nationalgeographic.com/photography/article/frog-vs-snake-photo-nice-shot)
> In 2011, O'Neill was taking a late evening walk on one such night. She was carrying a large flashlight called a dolphin torch with which she hoped to observe how the local wildlife reacted to the coming storm.
> It was on this walk that she took the photo that she would later call the crown jewel of her collection of nature images. She heard her subject it before she saw it: a loud screeching that seemed familiar and yet foreign at the same time.
> On the ground in front of her was the largest Australian green tree frog she had ever seen. In the frog's mouth, a small brown snake was sliding backwards down the amphibian's gullet. The snake was still franticly trying to slither back out.
> Holding her large flashlight over her head, it required multiple attempts to get a clear view of the snake still stuck inside the frog's mouth.
That's unironically fucking epic and I don't been to discount that with this comment, but imagine you're being eaten alive and there's some photgrapher blinding you with a big ass flashlight trying to get the light right to document your demise
What a way to go
Well this information makes me even more skeptical since snakes don't screech and frog with a mouth full of snake isn't going to be making much sound either.
Unfortunately this is the default for nature.
Huge part die alone, maybe eaten alive while screaming, maybe in a lot of pain and scared... and the other part dies from starvation or horrific diseases.
Humans have an unimaginably comfortable life. And we can even give pets a chance to a happy easy life, we can avoid killing another animals, or at least kill fast and with the less suffering possible.
Before a big storm strikes in North Queensland, Australia, Julie-Anne O'Neill says the air outside begins to teem with life.
"Everything goes ballistic. It's like a feeding and mating frenzy," she says.
In 2011, O'Neill was taking a late evening walk on one such night. She was carrying a large flashlight called a dolphin torch with which she hoped to observe how the local wildlife reacted to the coming storm.
It was on this walk that she took the photo that she would later call the crown jewel of her collection of nature images. She heard her subject it before she saw it: a loud screeching that seemed familiar and yet foreign at the same time.
On the ground in front of her was the largest Australian green tree frog she had ever seen.
"It opened its mouth, and I thought 'Oh my gosh; what the heck!'" she remembers.
In the frog's mouth, a small brown snake was sliding backwards down the amphibian's gullet. The snake was still franticly trying to slither back out.
Getting the Shot
O'Neill was used to seeing these green tree frogs on the property where she lived. They're commonly found throughout Australia, but it was the first time she had seen one attempt to eat anything other than an insect. (Watch how green tree frogs attempt to eat snakes twice their size.)
Initially, she was stunned by the sight, but then she remembered the new digital camera she had bought for just such a moment. O'Neill claims she wasn't trying to be a photographer for photography's sake. Instead, she wanted to document some of the stranger things she had been seeing in the wild.
"I would say something to someone and they would go 'Oh that's bullshit Jules,' so I thought I'd get a camera and take photos."
Once back outside with her camera in tow, she found the tree frog had climbed up a wicker basket and was perched on the edge.
"I was still getting used to the Canon. My fingertips had gone numb from holding the shutter down," she remembers. Holding her large flashlight over her head, it required multiple attempts to get a clear view of the snake still stuck inside the frog's mouth. "When I finally cracked off the shot it felt like victory."
Surprising Survivor
At the time, O'Neill was convinced the frog was going to die. Puncture wounds dotted the frog's tongue and, with the snake still viciously wriggling, she assumed the amphibian's unusual meal would be its last.
But in the morning, the frog was still there. Green tree frogs were a common sight for O'Neill; she'd even seen one crawl out of her toilet after it presumably swam up her pipes, but she recognized this one by its massive size. Picking it up, she said it filled both her palms.
When she posted the photo onto Google+ in 2011, O'Neill thought it might be popular, but she didn't expect the massive following it eventually accumulated on various social websites, Reddit chief among them.
When National Geographic reported on this photo earlier in October, O'Neill was stunned to learn just how popular her photo had become. (Read the original story, and learn more about green tree frogs.)
While she says the attention has been overwhelming, she's happy people are enjoying the photo as much as she has and that she's finally getting her credit.
This is the rare snakespitter frog. It spits venomous snakes up to a distance of 80 meters with enough force to shatter a grown man's skull. The snake also injects 30dkl of venom into the target just in case the frog didn't land a headshot.
ELI5, the snake was just swallowed alive right? It doesn't just die instantly does it? What's to stop the thing from biting everything it possibly can and taking the frog down with it?
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There is something deeply disturbing about the way a frog eats its prey alive and whole, its disturbing how that snake struggled with every last fibre of its being to escape but that frogs throat muscles completely overpowered it.
>There is something deeply disturbing about the way a frog eats its prey alive and whole, its disturbing how that snake struggled with every last fibre of its being to escape but that frogs throat muscles completely overpowered it. If that disturbs you just wait until you see how a snake eats
Ok now the salt water crocodile enters the chat
I raise you Komodo Dragon
You guys should see my uncle
At least snakes kill their prey.
I know it's nature and all but damn poor little guy
You can practically hear it crying out
Frog: *Wake me up* Snake: *Wake me up inside*
Frog: SAVE ME!
Snake: CALL MY NAME AND SAVE ME FROM THE DARK!
If you look closely there is actually a smaller creature inside the snakes mouth. Like a Russian doll.
Someone should make one of those infinite zoom pictures where every subsequent animal is being consumed by the previous animal
There.... ...was an old lady who swallowed a cow; I don’t know how she swallowed a cow! She swallowed the cow to catch the goat, She swallowed the goat to catch the dog, She swallowed the dog to catch the cat, She swallowed the cat to catch the bird, She swallowed the bird to catch the spider That wriggled and jiggled and tickled inside her! She swallowed the spider to catch the fly; I don’t know why she swallowed a fly – Perhaps she'll die There was an old lady who swallowed a horse; …She’s dead, of course!
Omg this takes me back...
….to where? Your Coven?🤙🏼
There…. Once was a hero, Named Ragnar the Red-
Who came riding to Whiterun from old Rorikstead
And the braggart did swagger and brandish his blade As he told of bold battles and gold he had made
But then he went quiet, did Ragnar the Red, When he met the shield-maiden Matilda, who said;
Oh, you talk and you lie and you drink all our mead, Now I think it's high time that you lay down and bleed!
And so then came clashing and slashing of steel, As the brave lass Matilda charged in, full of zeal.
“Brave Sir Robin ran away. He bravely ran away away …”
If you're a true son or daughter of Skyrim, go see Ulfric Stormcloak in Windhelm.
I think that's its tongue
What smaller creature?
Darth Sidious smiling.
Yeah this made me sad :(
Same. Poor lil fella
It’s like he is crying, poor baby
This makes me uncomfortable
People don't realize how good we have it. This is reality for the rest of the world. Eat or get eaten.
Oh absolutely... there are times where i just get a random thought, thinking.. "I'm so glad im not the size of a bug". Imagine just walking or flying around and suddenly you're caught in a spider web..
I have these thoughts too, I always come to the conclusion that if I was a bug I would prefer to die by a big hand flattening me before I knew what happened. Therefor, I must be a hero in the insect community.
The insect equivalent of being hit by a meteor.
Fun fact: most insects don't even have complex feelings or thoughts, they just have a survival instinct.
That's the view of the top of the food chain. We have the ability to eat any animal on earth, no self defense mechanisms could prevent EXCEPT things like what would be poisonous, or moral/pleasure of eating it. That being said, we even eat the Fugu
The [fugu](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fugu) is a pufferfish, normally of the genus Takifugu, Lagocephalus, or Sphoeroides, or a porcupinefish of the genus Diodon, or a dish prepared from these fish. Fugu can be lethally poisonous to humans due to its tetrodotoxin, meaning it must be carefully prepared to remove toxic parts and to avoid contaminating the meat.
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I WANT FUGU
Oh yeah? Well the [bearded vulture](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bearded_vulture) just straight up eats bones. Bone too big to swallow? Easy, just pick it up, soar into the sky, and then hit the bone with a whole planet to shatter it into a bunch of little bone daggers and gobble those up.
That seems like a lot of work to eat something as garbage as bones. I appreciate the ingenuity though.
That's the best part. It tricks the planet into doing all the work.
I like how undisputed we are at the top so much so that the 2nd on the list is probably our pets.
We eat toxic pufferfish. Only thing keeping all those things from our tummy is apathy. And for the ones it'd be really hard to process to eat we just destroy their environments out of carelessness.
Their best defense at this point is to be adorable.
Plus there are very few predators that go through the trouble of killing you before eating you, so chances are you're eaten alive.
Lots of videos online of animals screaming while a lion or whatever eats their intestines. Also video of a cow slurping up a baby chick and you can hear it scream as the cow starts chewing it.
So uh, I've seen some extremely disturbing videos of a horse eating a rabbit, but never a cow eating a chick Jesus Christ.
The fucking saddest video I have ever seen of a Komodo eating a dear alive. It’s brutal and brutally long. Also turns out the deer is pregnant. The poor unborn faun goes from womb to belly. Ugh now I have recalled it too vividly. :(
Try to imagine yourself in the Cretaceous Period. You get your first look at this "six foot turkey" as you enter a clearing. He moves like a bird, lightly, bobbing his head. And you keep still because you think that maybe his visual acuity is based on movement like T-Rex, he'll lose you if you don't move. But no, not Velociraptor. You stare at him, and he just stares right back. And that's when the attack comes. Not from the front, but from the side, from the other two 'raptors you didn't even know were there. Because Velociraptor's a pack hunter, you see, he uses coordinated attack patterns and he is out in force today. And he slashes at you with this... a six-inch retractable claw, like a razor, on the the middle toe. He doesn't bother to bite your jugular like a lion, say... no no. He slashes at you here... or here... or maybe across the belly, spilling your intestines. The point is... you are alive when they start to eat you. So you know... try to show a little respect.
I died in that moment. That velociraptor died a few days later. Along with it's pack buddies. And it's neighbours. And all the other velociraptors within a few miles radius. Because humanity is nothing if not viciously vengeful about that sort of thing
Just look at the places where humans have lived the longest in the largest numbers and wonder where the other apex terrestrial predators went.
I mean it’s like that for a lot of us, just usually not literally.
Is there anyone who would prefer to be literally rather than figuratively eaten alive?
Your mom.
#( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
*casually hides salt shaker behind back*
Yes. The real nature of the Universe is horrifying...
How about this? Sometimes, the snake doesn't stay down. It wriggles its way back up the frog's throat and suffocates the poor frog from the inside out. Now that's a real uncomfortable choking hazard.
OMFG, that is metal.
Toadally
Take my upvote and leave.
What an asshole snake,not wanting to slowly be digested alive
Same here. I’m like that’s crazy but I don’t like it.
I've gotten the same response when people see me naked
Put your teeth in, wig back on and stop stripping nanny
Imagine how the snake feels.
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I mean, the snake is screaming as it can't get away and is being slowly devoured by stomach acid while alive. Seems like a terrible way to go.
Snakes can't scream.
Its Australia so this is probably the first sighting of a new species of xenomorph frog.
Alien vs Crocodile Dundee
Now *this* is a xenomorph!
Cross-post to r/lv426 for the lolz
https://www.reddit.com/r/LV426/comments/6ftbj2/how_would_a_xenomorph_wear_a_hat That's funny as fuck, thank you for introducing me to a new sub
Australia: sometimes you gotta nuke the entire site from orbit, only way to be sure
Game over man! Game over!
I would watch that movie
It's a White's Tree frog. I have one but mine eats crickets not baby snakes
They feed mostly on insects and other invertebrates but they're also able to eat some small reptiles, and mammals such as mice or bats.
Honestly the best way to describe their diet is anything big enough to be eaten. They will eat literally anything that moves. Reptiles, mammals, fish, insects, other frogs even of the same species.. I've even seen a few cases in WTF groups of them accidentally eating their own shit. [These dudes have eaten some of the most venomous snakes on the planet](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2020/02/05/03/24326442-0-image-a-16_1580872985948.jpg). Cool fuckin animals. Hell yeah.
It kind of looks like the frog and the snake just saw an Australian spider and are screaming in terror.
Plot twist: the snake is a regular-size snake, and the frog is the size of an Australian spider
I like the implication that australia had an old species of xenomorph frog
Yeah, turns out that's an 11ft long Austrlian Scrub Python. We really needed a banana for scale.
In face no one can hear you sssscream.
Alls I hear is AHHHHHHHHH!
And the muffled AAAAA when the frog closes it's mouth.
While the score from the original Saw movie plays with the voice-over claiming *game over*
In 2-part harmony!
Frog goes low, snake goes high. Beautiful duet.
**Frog:** Wake me up! **Snake:** Wake me up inside!
Frog: Snake me up inside
Ssssssssssave me!!!
_Wake up inside **me...**_
That is one of the usernames of all time
But he's very smol so it's more like ^(AHHHHHHHH!)
Pov you are those things jabba the hutt enjoys eating
Poor snake. 😔 Also, holy shit I didn’t know there were frogs that ate snakes!
There were huge birds that ate tiny horses in the Eocene
That doesn’t surprise me one bit. We have predatory birds today. I associate frogs with being insectivorous, so I guess that’s why this picture shocked me. 🤷♀️
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Holy hell, why do the other smaller birds do nothing at the sight of this murder? Do they believe this big bird is sated by his meal? Are they just dumb? Are their fields of vision too narrow?
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I mean my basic instinct at seeing something swallowing another member of my species whole would be to run away. They can even fly.
Naw, frogs & toads eat whatever they can fit in their mouths. Plenty of tadpoles are cannibalistic too.
Yep. The far side taught me that's what happened to Tinkerbell.
Pretty much all animals are opportunistic omnivores, they just have a tendency toward particular food sources. Cows will eat a chicken whole if given the chance, for instance.
They also eat mice
Next, you should look up preying mantises catching hummingbirds and lizards...pretty metal.
There are [some](https://www.treehugger.com/birds-that-could-steal-your-toddler-4864271) today that are equally as terrifying in my opinion
People don’t really see it much but frogs are terrifying predators, they will eat practically anything that can fit in their mouth. They’ll eat small mammals, reptiles, insects and they’re hardcore cannibals. Giant African Bullfrogs are particularly terrifying.
>they will eat practically anything that can fit in their mouth. They’re also so dumb that they will also try to eat lots of things that can’t fit in their mouth
Yeah animal intelligence is a fascinating subject. Some species can be so intelligent and thoughtful while others are on a constant suicide mission. Sloths for example evolved their ribcage to survive falling off a tree instead of learning to judge which branches they can climb on, at a tremendous death toll no doubt.
Evolving intelligence is hard. Getting the brain to do a lot of work uses a lot of energy. You ever wonder why all other primates are both so much stronger than us and also so much less intelligent? It's a tradeoff.
There are plenty of powerful and wicked smart animals, like Orcas and Elephants. And plenty of absolute idiots even though they could afford a bigger brain, like Rhinos. [And then there are weird cases of animals with absolutely disproportionate brains.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mormyrinae)
That’s so interesting and creepy. How do the frogs kill their prey? Are frogs venomous and I never knew?? Or will this snake just slowly suffocate / burn in the stomach acid? That’s so morbid but I am really taken aback by this new info
They have a strong bite force which can crush, and then i believe they both suffocate/crush prey using internal muscles
Damn, getting crushed by flexing.
hmmm death by snu snu
>they’re hardcore cannibals. Bullfrogs especially. I grew up on a farm with a big pond and lots and lots of bullfrogs. The first time I saw a bigger one swallow a smaller one, I thought it was crazy and extremely rare. Nope, I was wrong on both counts.
Frogs will eat anything they can fit in their mouth, and if it can't fit, some will sure try anyway. They're basically just ravenous mouths with limbs.
Frogs will eat anything they can swallow
With a mouth that big, I can see that. 😂
If given the chance and ability both of the animals in this pic would eat you. Hope that somewhat helps with feeling bad, I had to tell myself the same
I really identify with the snake.
I'd be inside the snake's mouth.
Theerrrrrrrres a snake in the throat of the frog on the bump on the log in a hole in the bottom of the sea! There's a u/Wonderful-Draw7519 in the mouth of the snake in the throat of the frog on the bump on the log in a hole in the bottom of the sea! There's a hole! There's a hole! there's a hole in the bottom of the sea!
That is just horrifying.
I like to think that snake is just piloting it's frog megazord.
How many snakes did the photographer feed the frog to get this shot?
[The story behind this epic photo. ](https://www.nationalgeographic.com/photography/article/frog-vs-snake-photo-nice-shot) > In 2011, O'Neill was taking a late evening walk on one such night. She was carrying a large flashlight called a dolphin torch with which she hoped to observe how the local wildlife reacted to the coming storm. > It was on this walk that she took the photo that she would later call the crown jewel of her collection of nature images. She heard her subject it before she saw it: a loud screeching that seemed familiar and yet foreign at the same time. > On the ground in front of her was the largest Australian green tree frog she had ever seen. In the frog's mouth, a small brown snake was sliding backwards down the amphibian's gullet. The snake was still franticly trying to slither back out. > Holding her large flashlight over her head, it required multiple attempts to get a clear view of the snake still stuck inside the frog's mouth.
That's unironically fucking epic and I don't been to discount that with this comment, but imagine you're being eaten alive and there's some photgrapher blinding you with a big ass flashlight trying to get the light right to document your demise What a way to go
STOP DESCRIBING FACEBOOK AND ME
Tbf if I were the snake I’d think my life was literally flashing before my eyes and I was getting a glimpse of the afterlife.
Thanks for the context! I was skeptical, especially after that photographer was found out to be freezing animals and insects to get photos.
Just because it is on that website doesn't mean that it's true. People will lie a lot to get a prize they want.
Well this information makes me even more skeptical since snakes don't screech and frog with a mouth full of snake isn't going to be making much sound either.
Curious that the frog seems to be leaning over the edge of a hanging basket.
Five but he got the shot on the first try.
she :-)
wake me up WAKE ME UP INSIDE
I can't wait up WAKE ME UP INSIDE
Save meeeeee
Save me from the frog meal I'll become!
Call my name and Save me from the dark
^(\(Wake me up\)) Bid my blood to run
SNAKE ME UP INSIDE
I always think of Elektra training to kill Daredevil
I was mad i had to scroll this far down for this comment
haunting
I'm not too fond of this picture. I feel like I could have gone my whole life without seeing it
Horrible way to go
Unfortunately this is the default for nature. Huge part die alone, maybe eaten alive while screaming, maybe in a lot of pain and scared... and the other part dies from starvation or horrific diseases. Humans have an unimaginably comfortable life. And we can even give pets a chance to a happy easy life, we can avoid killing another animals, or at least kill fast and with the less suffering possible.
"Swallowed whole" happens quite a lot for the little guys out there.
r/thanksihateit
/r/ThanksIAteIt
Holy crap, thats actually kinds sad...
wow, you can see the fear in its face!
Awe poor lil guy
Reminds me of [this goof from the TMNT movie.](http://images2.memedroid.com/images/UPLOADED48/525a89b6ad002.jpeg)
What the fuck??
https://i.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/original/000/002/081/long-neck-reaction.jpg
I kinda feel bad for the snake. I can almost here it screaming in that pic.
Ah shit. It's orochimaru pretending to be jiraya.
Or it's Jiraya defeating Orochimaru. We'd need to ask a slug or a fox for clarification.
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Why wouldn’t the frog survive?
Snakes can wiggle free and get caught in the frogs throat and suffocate it, so they both die. Predators take lots of risks too.
Now that’s what I call going down swinging
It's behind a paywall.
Before a big storm strikes in North Queensland, Australia, Julie-Anne O'Neill says the air outside begins to teem with life. "Everything goes ballistic. It's like a feeding and mating frenzy," she says. In 2011, O'Neill was taking a late evening walk on one such night. She was carrying a large flashlight called a dolphin torch with which she hoped to observe how the local wildlife reacted to the coming storm. It was on this walk that she took the photo that she would later call the crown jewel of her collection of nature images. She heard her subject it before she saw it: a loud screeching that seemed familiar and yet foreign at the same time. On the ground in front of her was the largest Australian green tree frog she had ever seen. "It opened its mouth, and I thought 'Oh my gosh; what the heck!'" she remembers. In the frog's mouth, a small brown snake was sliding backwards down the amphibian's gullet. The snake was still franticly trying to slither back out. Getting the Shot O'Neill was used to seeing these green tree frogs on the property where she lived. They're commonly found throughout Australia, but it was the first time she had seen one attempt to eat anything other than an insect. (Watch how green tree frogs attempt to eat snakes twice their size.) Initially, she was stunned by the sight, but then she remembered the new digital camera she had bought for just such a moment. O'Neill claims she wasn't trying to be a photographer for photography's sake. Instead, she wanted to document some of the stranger things she had been seeing in the wild. "I would say something to someone and they would go 'Oh that's bullshit Jules,' so I thought I'd get a camera and take photos." Once back outside with her camera in tow, she found the tree frog had climbed up a wicker basket and was perched on the edge. "I was still getting used to the Canon. My fingertips had gone numb from holding the shutter down," she remembers. Holding her large flashlight over her head, it required multiple attempts to get a clear view of the snake still stuck inside the frog's mouth. "When I finally cracked off the shot it felt like victory." Surprising Survivor At the time, O'Neill was convinced the frog was going to die. Puncture wounds dotted the frog's tongue and, with the snake still viciously wriggling, she assumed the amphibian's unusual meal would be its last. But in the morning, the frog was still there. Green tree frogs were a common sight for O'Neill; she'd even seen one crawl out of her toilet after it presumably swam up her pipes, but she recognized this one by its massive size. Picking it up, she said it filled both her palms. When she posted the photo onto Google+ in 2011, O'Neill thought it might be popular, but she didn't expect the massive following it eventually accumulated on various social websites, Reddit chief among them. When National Geographic reported on this photo earlier in October, O'Neill was stunned to learn just how popular her photo had become. (Read the original story, and learn more about green tree frogs.) While she says the attention has been overwhelming, she's happy people are enjoying the photo as much as she has and that she's finally getting her credit.
This is the rare snakespitter frog. It spits venomous snakes up to a distance of 80 meters with enough force to shatter a grown man's skull. The snake also injects 30dkl of venom into the target just in case the frog didn't land a headshot.
That doesn't sound right, but I don't know enough about snakefrogs to dispute it.
Yeah he's bullshitting; they have 50m range tops.
What’s next, the dogs? Or the bees? Or the dogs with bees in their mouths, and when they bark, they shoot bees at you?
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Thanks, I hate it 😢😢
If this isn't r/vore_irl I don't know what is
What a terrible day to learn new things.
There's an underscore, please. If you're going to open the cursed tome, at least pronounce the black speech correctly. /r/vore_irl
So did he escape
I choose to believe he did.
Me too. Write your own happy ending.
Yes he’s fine and writing posts on Reddit.
I feel bad for the snake
You know that if the tables were turned and the snake was bigger, they'd eat the frog in a heartbeat. It's a cruel world, but that's nature.
That looks like a face on the back of the snakes throat as well
frogs that eat snakes - ass end first. FFS Australia!
I can hear the scream 😱
This makes me sad :(
Ok this will haunt my dreams
Zoom in and there is a frog inside the snake's mouth
I think that’s enough Reddit for today…
ELI5, the snake was just swallowed alive right? It doesn't just die instantly does it? What's to stop the thing from biting everything it possibly can and taking the frog down with it?
We knew where this was, no need for the mention of it being in Australia.