Cuban Tree Frog - Protruding Organs

[Kerry1968]

Any news on the tree frog?

[dinofsilence]

I took him in to the vet the next morning. The prolapse had worsened again overnight. The vet examined him while I was at work..he left a message on the answering machine saying that the problem would have been rectified by the warm water bath, but he continued to strain to defecate. Apparently he had ingested another frog that was too large to digest properly, and was passing undigested bits. The vet euthanized him for me.

[John]

A sad end. There are plenty more though where that one came from.

[Endosymbiote]

It's surprising to me that the "I ate too much so I died" issue is a problem in the wild. You'd think natural selection would have taught frogs over the course of millions of years what is the safe size of a meal. The costs of evolving a neural 'measuring stick' can't be THAT great, given that all frogs do it to some extent...

[John]

Well aside from the fact that this happens, Cuban Tree Frogs are not native to Florida so they may have attentional "learning" to do.