I had noticed this in one frog. He appears to be healthy, having interest in food, going in his little hide-outs, and camouflaging himself in the silk plants.
I figured he must have ate a little too much and didn't have room in his stomach, but I just want to make sure this isn't a concern.
I hand feed him, which really means chasing him around the tank until he realizes I've got something he wants in between my fingers, but does readily gobble it up.
This is the first time I've seen this behavior so maybe I over-fed him a bit?
Мy darlings :0.2.0 Calico and Tuxedo cats Ksyenja and Koshek
1.1.0 Xenopus leavis Carlos and Cecil
2?.0.2 Bombina orientalis Ivan the Terrible, Peter the Great, Lenin and Putin
0.1.0 Grammostola rose Megan Wallaby
1.1.0 Heterometrus laoticus Ian and Isaac
They spit out food and suck it back in to adjust how they swallow it, nothing to worry about
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2.0 Bombina orientalis
1.0 Bufo americanus
0.1.1 Ceratophrys cranwelli
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Мy darlings :0.2.0 Calico and Tuxedo cats Ksyenja and Koshek
1.1.0 Xenopus leavis Carlos and Cecil
2?.0.2 Bombina orientalis Ivan the Terrible, Peter the Great, Lenin and Putin
0.1.0 Grammostola rose Megan Wallaby
1.1.0 Heterometrus laoticus Ian and Isaac
Most frogs have a sticky tongue that keeps the food in place as it enters the mouth. ACFs and their relatives do not have a tongue so the frog spits it out and uses its long fingers to adjust the food so it gets to the right place. Think of it like humans eating "finger foods"
Terry Gampper
Nebraska Herpetological Society
“If we can discover the meaning in the trilling of a frog, perhaps we may understand why it is for us not merely noise but a song of poetry and emotion.”
--- Adrian Forsyth
Мy darlings :0.2.0 Calico and Tuxedo cats Ksyenja and Koshek
1.1.0 Xenopus leavis Carlos and Cecil
2?.0.2 Bombina orientalis Ivan the Terrible, Peter the Great, Lenin and Putin
0.1.0 Grammostola rose Megan Wallaby
1.1.0 Heterometrus laoticus Ian and Isaac
Sometimes they tend to swallow things the wrong way so they'd spit it out again and again til they find a more suitable angle for the food to be swallowed. The same goes when they're eating live bugs. The spitting is their way of killing and drowning non-aquatic live prey fast.
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