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For the first time, scientists in Kooragang Island in New South Wales, Australia have observed adult female green and golden bell frogs (Litoria aurea) preying on their male counterparts during breeding season.
“You hear it sometimes in the field, and it’s often a frog that’s being predated upon,” study lead author John Gould, a postdoctoral researcher in population ecology at the University of Newcastle, Australia, told Live Science.
After following the screams, Gould discovered the distress noises were coming from a male with its thigh almost completely ingested by a larger female. She was dragging him into a hole by the bank of a pond.
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