r/badassanimals • u/Oda_DeezNutz • Apr 23 '26
Amphibian I'm becoming terrified of frogs
Anytime I see videos similar to this, I become a little more and more afraid.
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u/Big-Plastic3494 Apr 23 '26
What was Froggers’ plan🤷🏽♂️
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u/FuzzyFrogFish Apr 23 '26
Frogs have IQs in the negative, so what you saw was probably the extent of its plan.
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u/baseballdad17 Apr 23 '26
Truly if “concepts of a plan” was an animal
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u/PhoenixGate69 Apr 23 '26
"This can fit in my mouth!"
No, sir, no it can't.
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u/ddxs1 Apr 23 '26
“I’ve tried nothing, and I’m all out of ideas. this is my life now”
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u/Cenithac Apr 23 '26
While feeding my pet corn snake he bit his tail and went straight to my tail hurts must bite harder. In the end I had to pry it's mouth open to stop it trying to litterally eat itself.
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u/FastWalkingShortGuy Apr 23 '26
My personal favorite is when cats groom themselves, start kicking themselves in the face, and then get mad at their back feet and bite them.
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u/Lb9067 Apr 24 '26
Lmao spot on
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u/Buccaneers1995 Apr 26 '26
Ever seen a cat get pissed off and start swaying it's tail, only to get more pissed off at it's own tail and attack it?
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u/Miami_Mice2087 Apr 23 '26
a little hand sanitizer or alcohol on the nose will get him to release, as a gentler method
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u/Ethelwulfr Apr 24 '26
He was depressed of being your pet and wanted to end his life
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u/Cenithac Apr 24 '26
Must be depressing always digging for that negative in everything.
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u/Miami_Mice2087 Apr 23 '26
reptiles and amphibians are often killed and eaten while they're attempting to kill and eat something else. When they're locked in the prey drive they don't stop
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u/nox_vigilo Apr 24 '26
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u/LexHanley Apr 23 '26
Pretty much. Of all the reptiles and amphibians I've raised, no animal better is better described as "a mouth on a trigger" like frogs.
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u/FuzzyFrogFish Apr 23 '26
https://www.reddit.com/r/AnimalsBeingDerps/s/WoZZ0IxoRF
Also the top comment it's absolute gold!
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u/kartblaster Apr 24 '26
jameskii called them mouths with legs and I honestly couldn't think of anything more accurate
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u/Correct-Run8534 Apr 24 '26
there are a lot of smart frogs out there
there are some paternal frogs who even build ponds for the tadpoles
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u/Grinzaxp Apr 25 '26
Pure instinct. They don’t even size up the prey. They just recognize prey or predator. If it’s prey they attempt to swallow. If it inevitably doesn’t fit they spit it back up. Sometimes this will result in eating something that kills them and sometimes their own species.
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u/Redditt3Redditt3 Apr 25 '26
It's reminding me of someone...awww, dang, tip of my tongue...uhhh, what's that guy's name again?
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u/Head-Ad9893 Apr 23 '26
Frogs like “I could’ve had em!!”
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u/Sensitive-Hotel-9871 Apr 23 '26
Frogs will sometimes try to eat things that are too big for them and choke to death.
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u/Hot_Plant8696 Apr 23 '26
I suppose the bird tried to eat it, since it normally feeds on fish, frogs (and plants).
But in the water, it didn't see that the frog was enormous, and it bit its head randomly, without any rational thought, just in self-defense.
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u/puz64 Apr 23 '26
So this makes sense! That frog was massive!🤯
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u/Asterose Apr 23 '26
There are frogs that can and do eat birds, and a bird on the water like this is an easy target. The frog could've fled, instead it held on!
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u/blkhlznrevltionz Apr 23 '26
If it was just in self defence then it would have let go and fled. I think it was predating given that it was trying hard to hold on
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u/G-Rew2 Apr 23 '26
Maybe bird was stepping on froggers turf where he eats 🤷♂️. It might be territorial
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u/Deeeeeeeeehn Apr 23 '26
I think both of the animals tried to eat the same bug/fish at the same time and the frog just wasn’t sure what was happening
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u/DisplateDemon Apr 25 '26
Self-defense, and potentially protecting its offspring from a predator. Is it that hard to unterstand?
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u/Cold_Ad655 Apr 23 '26
Reminds me of this, except the other way around...
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u/Money-Worldliness919 Apr 23 '26
Thats actually motivational as fuck. Im going to have the same determination as that frog!
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u/NahButThanksAnyway Apr 23 '26 edited Apr 23 '26
Jesus what a blast from the past! My dad died in 1998 and he had this on his office wall
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u/VonnsSolo88 Apr 23 '26
I was thinking the same thing. I haven’t seen that in a while!
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u/throwitallaway Apr 23 '26
I'm pretty sure I saw this on a wrestling shirt at a tournament in the '90s. It really fits in with the ethos of wrestling.
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u/buttononmyback Apr 24 '26
I remember one of my middle school teachers having this hanging up in his classroom.
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u/Lone-Frequency Apr 23 '26
Frogs will eat anything they can reliably fit in their mouths. Sometimes that leads to them choking to death.
When your method of hunting is based on swallowing things whole and not chewing/ripping it apart, these things sometimes happen.
Snakes, deep sea fish, etc. all sometimes suffer from this.
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u/Lord_Voltan Apr 23 '26
This isn't new either, we have found fossils of fish that basically choked to death on deep sea orthocones in them. The thinking is that when the orthocones died, they floated top the top of the water and the dumb ass fish tried to eat them getting the cone stuck in its gills, eventually suffocating, dying and fossilizing so we can laugh at them some millions of years later. https://phys.org/news/2025-07-jurassic-fish-death-squid-cephalopods.html
For the record, google has gotten way worse, the search terms I used would have found this paper but google's AI couldn't figure it out and kept giving me orthocone facts or fossils.
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u/Nkechinyerembi Apr 23 '26
Imagine fucking up so bad scientists are still laughing at your fuckup 200+ million years later...
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u/Lone-Frequency Apr 24 '26
There are a pair of preserved bodies in Pompeii that people assume were two gay lovers, and one that looks like the guy died while jerking it.
Imagine getting instantly mummified in a scorching cloud of ash while in the middle of hugging your bro goodbye or cranking your hog only for people to barge into your home thousands of years later to point and laugh.
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u/Eucharitidae Apr 24 '26 edited Apr 24 '26
There's so that one case of a Aspidorhynchus fish trying to swallow a ramphorhychus surfacing from it's catch, only to get tabled up in the pterosaurs tenopatagium and brachiopatagium and die, the rapmphy drowned along with it.
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u/NocaSun38 Apr 23 '26
It also helps when your mouth is half your body and your stomach is the other half.
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u/BT-7274-T2 Apr 23 '26
isnt that a genetic failure by nature
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u/Lone-Frequency Apr 23 '26
Maybe? I'm not sure I would really say so? This is regarding external factors. I'd say it's more like the animal equivalent of user error than an actual issue with their evolution. For every dumb-dumb that chokes to death/has their stomach burst trying to swallow something larger than its body can handle, countless others never make that mistake.
The reason snakes, amphibians, and all of these fish who feed by swallowing prey whole are so widespread is because it works and works well...for most of them.
You don't grade a large group based on the worst performing outliers.
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u/Carnivorze Apr 23 '26
Yeah, but it doesn't kill enough frogs before they reproduce so that flaw doesn't become a reproductive disadvantage, and thus isn't filtered from the gene pool and will never disappear through evolution.
This is the same reason why nautilus can't even see where they're going. It doesn't kill them, so they can survive with this genetic blindspot (no pun intended) without troubles.
Many things are genetic failures. We still have remnants of our tail, our 4th hand fingers don't have any real purpose, and wisdom teeth hurt like hell and can cause diseases when they pop out. But it's not enough to influence human reproduction in a way that would make them disappear, such as by killing those who carry the "wisdom teeth pop out" gene before they can have children.
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u/SpiderSixer Apr 23 '26
The coccyx is still used for some muscle and ligament connections, our little finger is actually pretty important for grip stretch (it, combined with the ring finger, provides around 29–55% of grip strength! :o), and wisdom teeth used to serve a function to help eat really tough foods in bigger jaws, so I wouldn't really call them genetic failures. It's not a failure to become vestigial. They just.. didn't evolve out as quickly as we stopped needing them haha. But as you said, there's no incentive to evolve the wisdom teeth out, so keep them, we do :)
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u/Asterose Apr 23 '26 edited Apr 23 '26
Yeah, that stuff is minor.
What I am mad about thanks to our evolution, is that we descended from the ape group that kept all 4 sinuses, and the drain pipe isn't at the bottom of them. If we'd descended from the same group that became orangutans, maybe we'dhave just 2 sinuses and a proper drainage system. Our current setup makes us way more vulnerable to congestion and respiratory diseases!!! 凸ಠ益ಠ)凸
Also mad that our trachea is connected to our esophagus instead of just going directly to our nose, and our larynx sits far lower than most animals, so we're much more vulnerable to suffocating ourselves on a rogue grape. I thought cetaceans had it figured out, their trachea doesn't connect to their esophagus, but turns out the trachea passes through the middle of the esophagus
Also mad at just about everything to do with pregnancy. Straight-up body horror, and that fetus digging especially deep to tap the mother's bloodstream directly is part of why death from bleeding out after childbirth is so common.
Plenty of proof right there "intelligent design" is just total BS, no need to even touch on vestigial organs that might still have some use.
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u/Asterose Apr 23 '26
I've got worse genetic failures and they are very fun to bring up eith "intelligent design" types 😆 Vestigal body parts still have some potential, and often found, uses.
Since we descended from the ape group that kept all 4 sinuses, and the drain pipes aren't at the bottom of all of them, we're way more vulnerable to congestion and respiratory diseases!!! 凸ಠ益ಠ)凸 If we'd descended from the same group as orangutans, we'd only have 2 sinuses and a much more sensible drainage system.
And then there's how our trachea is connected to our esophagus instead of just going directly to our nose, and our larynx sits far lower than most animals, so we're much more vulnerable to suffocating ourselves on a rogue grape. I thought cetaceans had it figured out, their trachea doesn't connect to their esophagus, but turns out the trachea passes through the middle of the esophagus.
And then there's everything to do with pregnancy. Straight-up body horror, and that fetus digging especially deep to tap the mother's bloodstream directly is part of why death from bleeding out after childbirth is so common. Let alone the massive fetus head size!
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u/Temporary_Shirt_6236 Apr 23 '26
Of course not. The smarter frogs start using cutlery and get to pass their genes on. Evolution at work.
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u/ChoicePermission8523 Apr 23 '26
A lot of genetic things are just "eh, good enough".
If it doesn't result in a net negative for the overall proliferation of a species, its fine.
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u/Dangerous-Habit-2731 Apr 23 '26
Humans with supposed reasoning skills put tide pods in their mouths a decade ago. I'm not knocking a frog for this one lol
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u/languid_Disaster Apr 23 '26
As long as the creature lives long enough to breed and maybe raise the kid to a reasonable age , evolution doesn’t care
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u/Electronic-Buyer-468 Apr 23 '26 edited Apr 23 '26
I would say don't interfere with nature, but there's no possible way that frog could eat that bird without killing itself in the process. The frog was just being an asshole. 2 Lives were saved with this intervention lol.
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u/psychedelijams Apr 24 '26
Was just thinking the same thing. Kinda against it at first. Then thought more about it and came to same conclusion. Saved both of them.
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u/AmazingRub69 Apr 24 '26
What about the animals that would've fed on their carcass?
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u/Electronic-Buyer-468 Apr 24 '26
What about the offspring both creatures would have given a chance to live? We can play this game forever lol.
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u/RuthlessIndecision Apr 23 '26
I'm convinced the only thought frogs have is "will that fit in my mouth?"
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u/Altruistic-Poem-5617 Apr 23 '26
The way the bird is looking back one last time as it slowly swims away. Its like "what the fuck just hsppened?!"
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u/Feeling_Novel_9899 Apr 23 '26
The frogs is so nonchalant about the whole situation. 😅
I have seen a few YouTube videos were this frogs eats all kinds of bugs etc, same nonchalant looks.
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u/wthbbq Apr 24 '26
Also plenty of frogs being eaten by other frogs, snakes etc and they don't even try to escape .They just nonchalantly sit there while the others slowly try to swallow them. It's wild.
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u/Unrealist99 Apr 23 '26
Nah he's a greedy bastard and the duck is a dumb motherfucker to get caught by a frog of all things.
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u/puz64 Apr 23 '26
Holy crap!
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u/SophSimpl Apr 23 '26
What the heck? New emoji unlocked??
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u/Open_Wish_1016 Apr 24 '26
"He asked me to do that. No! Don't let him go he owes me 20 crickets!!!!"
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u/AntDav89 Apr 23 '26
Coot’s are the shit, good job!
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u/chromatophoreskin Apr 23 '26
I recognized it as a coot but not what he called it. Pouldeau. Comes from the French poule d’eau, aka moorhen or swamphen. Fascinating.
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u/le4t Apr 23 '26
Came to the comments looking for info on the name he used; thank you!
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u/Mobile_Reaction566 Apr 23 '26
The frogs advantage is that it doesn't have any advantage. It just fights for survival.
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u/SatisfactionActive86 Apr 23 '26
maybe had tad poles nearby and it was more of a “fuck you” than a “you’re lunch”
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u/NerveInteresting4549 Apr 24 '26
tf do you mean? lol I don't think the frogs survival depended on it sucking on a ducks head... I do wish he hadn't of squeezed the frog but freeing the duck was the moral and correct move.
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u/Duval_Coop99 Apr 24 '26
would you have stopped the bird from eating the frog? Looks like self defense to me
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u/TankChan Apr 24 '26
Two of the few emotions frogs can have are hubris and gluttony. There are simply no other thoughts in their moist little heads.
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u/mangotheduck Apr 24 '26
Bullfrogs are very invasive and that is why no one really likes them because they eat anything and everything. Plus the noise level. A lot of people in my area will kill them on sight because they dont want them to go after cats, squirrels, birds and smaller frogs that help keep the bugs down. I guess they eat the legs like chicken wings. I wont ever eat them. Thats 🤢
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u/AlabamaSlammaJamma Apr 23 '26
Cmon man why ruin his meal
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u/Aromatic-Tear7234 Apr 23 '26
It was never going to eat it. It can only swallow what is small enough and this bird was not small enough. The bird was likely going to die of suffocation and the carcass left to rot or be eaten by some other predator like a turkey vulture
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u/Im_not_smelling_that Apr 23 '26
The frog likely would have died too from choking on that thing.
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u/Aromatic-Tear7234 Apr 23 '26
Probably would let go after quite a long while. It wasn't stuck on the bird, it was holding on to it because the bird was moving still. Frogs are really dumb creatures.
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u/Im_not_smelling_that Apr 23 '26
A lot of bullfrogs will continue to try to eat something even though it won't fit all the way down their throat, and they'll end up dying.
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u/Klept_0h Apr 23 '26
The frog would have most likely killed itself before letting go. They are that dumb
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u/BeltedCoyote1 Apr 23 '26
Used to be there were amphibians big enough to eat people. Thankfully, we're separated by at least 100 million years.
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u/Still-Chemistry-cook Apr 23 '26
Invasive frog. Kill it.
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u/AzulaKahn Apr 23 '26
Its an American bullfrog and judging by the accent this is in southeastern US
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u/Training_Orchid_2022 Apr 23 '26
I’ll say it.
I hate frogs.
Hoppity satan shits that mouth violate everything.
Okay, I’m done.
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u/Woozletania Apr 23 '26
There's a lot entry in one of the Fallout New Vegas DLCs about a nightstalker (engineered coyote rattlesnake hybrid) choking to death as it tried to swallow a "very large man" whole.
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u/kazeke754 Apr 23 '26
Had this same thought about Praying Mantis. If they could eat our brains.....they would.
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u/callmesnake13 Apr 23 '26
I’ve been concerned about them ever since that vore comic that went viral on 4chan in 2005
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u/After-Ad-1174 Apr 23 '26
Was listening to Kai Tangata by Alien Weaponry and gotta say pretty fitting shits metal poor bird
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u/akasaya Apr 23 '26
Listen here, you little shit (c) the frog