#Frog venom

[bridoesotherjunk]

Frog Venom:: 🐸 😏😏😏😘

Eddie:: ..... I am not kissing you when you're like this.

Frog Venom:: But Eddie!! 😭 Don't you want your handsome prince?!?

Eddie:: no.

[typhlonectes]

A remarkable example of suspected Batesian mimicry of Gaboon Vipers by Congolese Giant Toads

Eugene R. Vaughan, Mark S. Teshera, Chifundera Kusamba, Theresa R. Edmonston, and Eli Greenbaum

Abstract

Batesian mimicry is a phenomenon in nature whereby a non-toxic animal emulates a noxious one, seeking to deter predators by deception. This type of mimicry occurs in many animals, with numerous documented examples of invertebrates, harmless squamates, and even birds that mimic venomous snakes. However, no observations of anurans mimicking venomous snakes have been reported. Based on comparative data from colour pattern, morphology, geographic distribution and behaviour, we propose that the Congolese Giant Toad (Sclerophrys channingi), endemic to Democratic Republic of Congo, is a Batesian mimic of the geographically widespread Gaboon Viper (Bitis gabonica). Although the colour pattern similarity between these taxa is not an exact match, aposematism and precise imitation are not required for Batesian mimicry to be effective, especially when the model (B. gabonica) is dangerously venomous and carefully avoided by other vertebrates. Given the morphological similarity between S. channingi and two other African toad species (S. brauni and S. superciliaris) that are sympatric with B. gabonica and its sister taxon (B. rhinoceros), similar examples of Batesian mimicry are likely.

Read the paper here: A remarkable example of suspected Batesian mimicry of Gaboon Vipers (Reptilia: Viperidae: Bitis gabonica ) by Congolese Giant Toads (Amphibia: Bufonidae: Sclerophrys channingi ) | Request PDF (researchgate.net)

Journal of Natural History 53(29-30): 1853–1871. (2019)

doi: 10.1080/00222933.2019.1669730

[herpsandbirds]

May we please see some red belly black snakes or carpet pythons or striped marsh frogs or great barred frogs? I miss the country

But of course, here's some Australian friends for you...

Jungle Carpet Python (Morelia spilota cheynei), family Pythonidae, found in the rain forests of northeastern Australia

photograph by Jonathon at @stunningserpents | instagram

Red-bellied Black Snake (Pseudechis porphyriacus), family Elapidae, found in eastern Australia

Venomous.

photograph by Ken Griffiths

Striped Marsh Frogs (Limnodynastes peronii), mating, family Limnodynastidae, getting all frothy, Sydney, Australia

photograph by Froggydarb 

Great Barred Frog (Mixophyes fasciolatus), family Myobatrachidae, Conondale National Park, Queensland, Australia

photograph by Deane Lewis

[jalapeno-xcf]

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[pumpkster]

[the-autistic-spider]

IM Gonna Need Some Venom Survives fic Right god damn now!

they did not fucking kill my boy venom

please give venom survives fics

or any venom last dance fics i really need to see my baby symbiote boy

That God Damn Bitch is alive stuck to a Cockroach

[ninebaalart]

Venom Swamp

venom froggy. venom swamp bunny. venom lilypad. its a symbiote swamp. get your klyntar galoshes on and play in the blood water

[markscherz]

A question prompted by a very intense dinner conversation: are poison dart frogs poisonous or venomous? My understanding was always if it eats you and you die, it's venomous, if you eat it and you die, it's poisonous, but you touch it and you die doesn't seem to fit into that (admittedly probably oversimplified) rule.

Dendrobatid toxins are definitely poisons. The effect of being harmful to the touch is caused by that poison basically being absorbed by the skin, which is ingestion of a sort.

[masonsbfgaming]

[arcane style study] everyone's favourite master manipulator, gaslighter and liar 🫶

[linkies-lines]

me and @orcusnoir's majoras. i just think theyre a funny dichotomy

[0samue0]

Alright, so by now I think we all know that if it bites you and you die it's venomous and if you bite it and die it's poisonous.

As a person who has waaay to much knowledge about herbs and medicinal plants for someone without a) a garden or b) a profession that even remotely touches that subject, I must ask:

If I touch it and I die, is it venomous or poisonous?

[rkrayart]

Quick tip from venom how to get those abs. Chocolate can be good for your figure xD

I just watched a few venom comics and I can't get past his buttocks. Also, the round cute version of venom. Idk why but I remembered those round frogs.

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[sirensoul]

[jalapeno-xcf]

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[rookflower]

i don't manually clear out my followers on this account so just a note that if you are a self proclaimed proshipper i don't want you here and will most likely just immediately block you if i see you

[evilreflections]