29 જૂન, 2025

Breakfast at 0:09.

Just a quick bite.

I see the "Scream" face in the camouflage:

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20 ટિપ્પણીઓ:

rehajm કહ્યું...

Suburban safari with a kill!

James કહ્યું...

Small sample size, obviously, but I'm guessing this toad has a much higher hunting success rate than the average bullfrog. Watching giant bullfrogs be so incredibly inept at capturing what's right in front of them is hilarious.

Kai Akker કહ્યું...

Cute. Perhaps not meant as a cafe post, but....

I may well have missed it, been busy. Any comments from Drago lately?

Kai Akker કહ્યું...

I wouldn't mind hearing from farmgirl, either, if she's out there reading.

Mike (MJB Wolf) કહ્યું...

Cool frog.

Wince કહ્યું...

Life in the food chain.

AI Overview
Many animals eat toads, including snakes, birds, and other mammals:

Snakes: Hognose snakes specialize in eating American toads, and some snakes, like garter snakes, are immune to toads' poisonous glands.

Birds: Crows, kites, and other birds of prey eat toads. Crows may flip toads onto their backs and eat their organs, or they may eat the whole toad, including the poison bit. Kites may eat the tongues of roadkill toads.

Other mammals: Raccoons eat the undersides of toads, avoiding the skin on their backs and heads. Skunks are opportunistic hunters that eat toads, along with other small mammals and amphibians. Dogs are also known to kill toads, but they may not like the taste.

Toads have a defense mechanism against predators, secreting a foul-tasting toxin from their skin glands when threatened. However, some predators are not deterred, and others have developed strategies to overcome the toxin. For example, meat ants are unaffected by the toxin and can eat toads without reacting. Australian water rats, called rakali, have learned to eat cane toads by removing the poisonous gallbladder and eating the heart and other organs.

RCOCEAN II કહ્યું...

Now you see it, now you dont.

RCOCEAN II કહ્યું...

ever eat a toad? Many parts are edible.

Iman કહ્યું...

I see Harry Chapin a little above the frog’s right front leg.

Iman કહ્યું...

No… wait… it’s the Ayatollah Khomeini!

Dude1394 કહ્યું...

I love toads. We have a bumper crop this year. Starting out as small pencil eraser size and quickly growing as fast as they can so daddy toad doesn’t get them.

Lem Vibe Bandit કહ્યું...

I see a baby bird or a baby alien. Depending on how scared I want to be I guess.

FullMoon કહ્યું...

"Kai Akker said...
I may well have missed it, been busy. Any comments from Drago lately?"

Nope. Hoping for the best

Quaestor કહ્યું...

A toad, not a frog. I'm informed the difference isn't trivial. This one is Anaxyrus hemiophrys, the Canadian toad, a rare species in most of the United States.

The pareidolia of toad camouflage is interesting. Most people see faces in the random splotches and warty texture. I see toad camouflage in random faces.

Ann Althouse કહ્યું...

Toads are frogs

Derve કહ્યું...

Leave the wildlife alone.
Stop standing over them, taping them.
Just keep walking... or stand still.
Why is this hard?

Temujin કહ્યું...

I see "A Sunday on La Grande Jatte".

Josephbleau કહ્યું...

“ Toads are frogs”

All terrapins are turtles but not all turtles are terrapins.

All toads are frogs but all frogs are not toads.

James કહ્યું...

Yes, all toads are frogs but not all frogs are toads. Roughly speaking, the world of "frogs" (Anurans) splits into three families, "true frogs" (Ranidae family, think bull frogs), "tree frogs" (Hylidae family, think, well, green tree frogs), or "toads" (Bufonidae family, think toads).

Kai Akker કહ્યું...

Yes, and thank you, FullMoon.

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