Snakes eat frogs, which we have known since childhood. It can be said that it is common sense. In the food chain, frogs and snakes are the relationship between prey and predator, which is a "destiny takes a hand" relationship.
However, "there are talents in the frog world." Among frogs, there are also a few malicious characters who don't believe in life. They are "reinventing themselves", feeding on snakes and even swallowing poisonous snakes raw without being poisoned!
This is the protagonist of today-eating snake frogs.
The way big brother smokes cigars.
The shocking counterattack of "Tyrannosaurus frog"
Snake-eating frog is a kind of American bullfrog. In Taiwan Province province, people call it "Tyrannosaurus rex frog".
The origin of this name is because this frog is very different from the well-known frog that eats insects, and its fighting power is ridiculously high. It can easily eat snakes under 1 meter (it is estimated that the stomach can't last more than one meter), and can eat anything that can be eaten, whether it is a poisonous snake or a non-poisonous snake. Its stomach acid has super corrosive digestion ability, and it can even prey on some birds and mice. If something goes wrong, it's eating!
Among these hunted snakes, there are many famous poisonous snakes, such as tiger-spotted neck snake, rattlesnake and spotted viper.
The adult weight of this snake-eating frog is mostly about 3 kg. On the surface, it looks full of meat, but in fact it hides muscles. Unlike ordinary frogs, their forelimbs are even more powerful than their hind limbs.
The skin color of snake-eating frogs is mostly yellowish brown, but it is easy to blend into the surrounding environment, just like a chameleon. When preying on snakes, snake-eating frogs will hide in the surrounding environment by using the natural camouflage of skin color, and most of them adopt the mode of "waiting for the rabbit" to wait for the prey to come to the door.
However, if the prey is a rattlesnake, the snake-eating frog will actively look for rattlesnakes to prey through sound.
When the prey comes, it will catch the poisonous snake directly into its mouth with its tongue covered with mucus, and use its powerful jawbone to match the mucus in its mouth, so that once the snake enters its mouth, it will never escape.
Then swallow the snake body into the stomach little by little, and digest it with gastric juice while swallowing. This swallow, eaten alive, looks like a frog smoking a cigar.
During the whole predation process, many snakes will resist, but there is basically nothing they can do. In a few cases of escape, either the small snake frog preys on the oversized snake and preys from the tail of the snake, which is easy to be bitten by the poisonous snake. But the frog's skin is not rough enough, so it is easy to be bitten and slip.
Once swallowed from the head of the snake, there is absolutely no room for the snake to resist. And adult snake-eating frogs have rough skin. Even if bitten by a poisonous snake in the process of resistance, the snake-eating frog will move calmly like tickling, because it will not cause any harm to it. Gao Jia is willful. Even if you are bitten, with years of experience in eating poisonous snakes, you already have anti-venom elements in your body, which can fight and immunize against snake venom.
Who would have thought that a snake that has eaten frogs all its life will be eaten by frogs one day? Snake-eating frog is really a "big man in the frog world" and has completed an incredible food chain counterattack against the frog family.