Tadpoles consumption by the Iberian water frog (rana perezi)

… the frog is fighting to swallow it down:

Water frogs don´t have a sip musculature and gape ….

… open their mouth, to …

… employ the eye musculature to swallow down the prey:

As good as done!

And I also caught Gustava, as she happily with the tadpole in her frog mouth grinned into the camera!

May 2008

Birgit Kremer