A man in Livingston, Louisiana stumbled upon one of the most amazing battles ever captured on camera of a bullfrog fighting a coot.
Commonly mistaken for a duck, the coot was filmed face down in the water and was being held under there by a massive bullfrog gripping ahold of the birds head. The man and his children were fascinated by this one-in-a-million discovery and started recording it.
The frog, which was roughly three times smaller than the coot, had the birds entire head inside of its mouth. One can only speculate how the two ended up in this predicament but it appeared the frog was either trying to drown the bird or the bird was stuck in the frogs mouth and it was about to end badly for the both of them.
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This is what the man did next
In cases like this, experts strongly advise leaving wildlife alone to allow nature to unfold organically; however, the man’s children were present, creating a moral conundrum. Furthermore, he believed that both animals might die in the end, so he made the decision to intervene and break up the fight.
Initially, he sprayed them with water in an attempt to break it apart, but the frog was resisting. In order to further assess the situation, the man then made the decision to simply reach down into the water, pick them both up, and bring them back to land.
After laying them down, he gently squeezed the frog’s throat to cause it to release the coot. It worked. At last, the frog started to spit up the bird, which seemed to be located quite deep in its throat.
The moment the coot was free, it shook off the frog’s spit and headed straight for the water. The man held the frog up to the camera to get a close-up and demonstrate the amazing sight of the creature as it swam away and turned to face the camera in an attempt to understand what had happened.
You have to give it to the frog though. It looked like it was winning the fight. In any case, it was a fantastic video that you ought to watch.
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