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A guy that I work with swears he saw a large frog with a small crawdad hanging out of his mouth only the pinchers were visible. I have hung around the creeks my whole life and I have never seen this, Has anyone else ever seen this?
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only strange incident i've seen w/ large frogs (bull frogs) was one day down at pond heard a bunch of splashing, went to look, and saw full grown (maybe 12-18-incher) w/ another full grown half way down his gullet head first, legs stickin out.
at first I thought it was some backwoods mating ritual, and then realized it was hannibal the cannibal.
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Frogs are opportunistic and will feed on anything they can get in their mouths.
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I think that Deb King, Queen of Frogs, will concur with h2Ofwlkillr...that's the way she learnt me. There was some in-depth discussion on introducing bullfrogs to a pondsite in a fairly recent thread. The drawback, beside the nightly bullfrog philharmonic, was that you may risk the loss of other critters smaller than their mouths. This includes dining on their own.
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I have seen a large Bull frog with a large crawdad in it's mouth once. Frogs will try and eat almost anything so long as they can see it moving.
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I once hooked a big bull frog one on a fly line. I was casting to a swirl near a shady point, and hit the bank. I didn't even know he was there.
Frogs will eat anything they can swallow. Snakes, birds, mice...anything. They're nothing but a belly that hops around like a frog.
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Just like Bobad, I've hooked big bull frogs on flies...and in fact, it is a kind of fun diversion. Haven't seen one with a crawdad in its mouth but it wouldn't surprise me in the least. Anything they can get in their mouths, they will.
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H20 is right . We have some very big BFs who's ancestors were transplanted from the Miss. delta swamps 25 years ago. LMB and BF are alike in that regard. They will attack and eat anything they can get that big mouth over. I have seen the big ones eat craws and small snakes , not to mention each other.
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Yep! Like a LMB a frog will eat anything that moves as long as he/she can fit in his/her mouth. This can actually lead to the death of both predator and prey at times. It is not at all unusual for a frog to eat a crawdad. We have managed to pellet train frogs, but we either have to keep farm raised maggots under the feed (so that it is constantly in motion) or keep the feed in a "hopper" with a blower underneath it.
Sorry to have been away for so long, but glad to see you all are still hopping (ok... bad pun) away on the frog topic.
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Frogs have a very primitive visual system, only things with movement will actually register in their little brains.
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