Jeez. I find that I can even pick out a (freshly) dead cricket from my cricket pen, wave it around with the feeding tongs. it's snapped right up. frogs are not hesitant at all to eat a dead cricket. they just love them.

i've waved wriggling worms in front of them. they all come up and look. but then they don't strike. it's like they are all daring each other to go first.

once one goes first, they all tend to go. motion makes them quite excited.

but yeah. i can get rid of my dead crickets quick.


i find that the few times i've handled them, you just turn them upside down. they stop squirming and relax. i've had one relax totally, it did not bunch up like the typical unken reflex but instead went entirely limp, letting it's four legs just droop down. floppy frog. it's the unken reflex but it looks more like froggy hypnosis when they go upside down.

cool little critters.

i think they are smart enough to know what a cricket is and to _LIKE_ them. they seem to not be dumb frogs. (not like my pacman was)