When threatened, the horror frog actually breaks a
bone in its toe, forces the broken end through its own skin, and uses it to
stab its foes.
In the each of horror frog’s hind toes are bones
that come to sharp points. The points are capped with a small nodule of bone
that is attached to the actual sharp end. When the frog is attacked, it breaks
the nodule off the end of the pointed bone, effectively unsheathing it for
battle. and tries to shank the hungry predator with it.
In Cameroon, these frogs are hunted for food. With
males growing to 11 inches long they presumably yield a significant amount of
protein, but wrangling these amphibians isn’t as simple as catching a friendly
bull frog. Not wanting to get
frog-stabbed, the hunters use long spears and machetes to kill the frogs before
they even touch them.
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