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[rogruth]

Do I want or need to know about the frog transporting snake?

I sure do. What the heck is going on?

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Do I want or need to know about the frog transporting snake?

I sure do. What the heck is going on?

Better to be on the back than to be on the inside.......

[MurphOnMillerAve]

What!?! I thought toads got eaten by snakes ! And I see two of them being so casual that they are humping! If I hadn't seen your picture, I'd never have believed such a moment were possible. Fantastic.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

What!?! I thought toads got eaten by snakes ! And I see two of them being so casual that they are humping! If I hadn't seen your picture, I'd never have believed such a moment were possible. Fantastic.

You can only eat so many toads before.................

[MurphOnMillerAve]

What!?! I thought toads got eaten by snakes ! And I see two of them being so casual that they are humping! If I hadn't seen your picture, I'd never have believed such a moment were possible. Fantastic.

You can only eat so many toads before.................

..before ya get toad-overload....
...oh wait, even bettah…..croaked....?

[Rufus T. Firefly]

What!?! I thought toads got eaten by snakes ! And I see two of them being so casual that they are humping! If I hadn't seen your picture, I'd never have believed such a moment were possible. Fantastic.

You can only eat so many toads before.................

..before ya get toad-overload....
...oh wait, even bettah…..croaked....?

Try "overtoaded",

[MurphOnMillerAve]

"overtoaded" ! That's the best! (Clever man [ all along!] )

[webenda]

Do I want or need to know about the frog transporting snake?

I sure do. What the heck is going on?

That is an Australian Olive Python (Liasis olivaceu) estimated to be 11.5 feet long. (That is small, they can exceed 14 feet.)

The frogs are Cane Toads (Rhinella marina) AKA giant neotropical toad. Most of the toads are 4 to 6 inches long except for the big 9 inch female cane toad that has attracted one of the male's attention. Cane toads are poisonous.

When snakes living in Cane Toad areas get big enough, they eat a cane toad. Big mistake! First, the toads' poison tends to slow the snake down - so that it takes a long time to eat a toad, and then the snake is almost paralyzed for quite a while. This could be bad news if a predator comes along. Second, snakes that eat a cane toad tend to lose weight afterward. Cane toads live in harmony with the Australian snake population because the snakes will never eat another one. The snake in the photo must have tried a toad dinner at some time in its life because it is showing no interest in the cane toads.

Did you count the toads? Twelve males, one female. That is the normal distribution of male/female cane toads. Possibly because of the male to female distribution male toads will try to mate with anything. Pick one up and you will find it firmly clamped onto your hand. Look down at your feet and you will two more that have fallen in love with your feet, one clamped onto each foot.

The python in the photo has ten cane toads attempting to mate with it.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

But what is the toads' attraction to the snake? Why are they there at all, I wonder, rather than gamboling elsewhere. Mating attempts ?!

[webenda]

Correct, mating with the snake. I wonder what their babies are going to look like?

[HONDO74]

Correct, mating with the snake. I wonder what their babies are going to look like?

The toads babies or the snakes babies ??

Most of the world's snake species (about 70%) reproduce by laying eggs. But vipers, rattlesnakes, boas, and most of the sea snakes give birth to live young.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

maybe they'd look like something new along the evolutionary road, hop-squirming along.....

[HONDO74]

maybe they'd look like something new along the evolutionary road, hop-squirming along.....

[webenda]

Correct, mating with the snake. I wonder what their babies are going to look like?

The toads babies or the snakes babies ??

Yes, what would Mr. 10 toad's and Mrs. Snake's babies look like?

Ten jump ropes.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

warped
or imaginative.
I'm not sure which.