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When the frogs swallow their eyes pull down slightly into the head as the
swallowing muscle is also attached to the eyes…
So their eyes move when they swallow, but they don’t use them to swallow!
Cool!
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Ha! Good one Hannah! I do love frogs….we grow tadpoles with the kids every year and release them. Actually, it’s getting close to tadpole season…
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@Carina and @Hannah- I also love frogs (and geckos/lizards!) but did not know that about their eating habits!!! Wow!
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@ Hanna: Interesting 😀
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This is weird. I checked a few youtube videos and it really does look like frogs blink down their food. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVs91aRDwCQ
One website said that “When swallowing a big mouthful of food, a frog blinks its eyes. The blinking pushes the frogs huge eyeballs down on top of its mouth. This helps squeeze the food in its mouth into its throat.”
I am still unsure about this though as the internet can often have information that is unsubstantiated or just plain untrue.
I asked an animal expert, First dog on the Moon (https://twitter.com/firstdogonmoon) and he replied “I know everything about frogs but that”. When I asked if he knows other frog experts he replied “I know only frogs, no people”.
This seems to be a difficult question to answer.
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