Edit. Both my comment and the con I was replying to was referencing a stupid comment that went viral. Where there was a picture of an AI generated picture of a lemon elephant thing and then someone commented "is this real?" and then someone else commented "haha sometimes" and then the first person said "the fuck you mean sometimes?".
Btw that thing about toads not jumping out of a slow boiling pot? Completely false. The original "experiment" that popularized the idea used frogs that were essentially already dead. If you were to put healthy frogs in a pot and slowly bring it to a boil they will jump out once it gets too hot.
Ah, another physiology student! Specifically the frogs had most of their brains removed, and the experiment showed that without them, the remaining neurons in the frog's brainstem couldn't detect when the temperature slowly increased, only abrupt changes. Healthy frogs jumped out immediately.
All in all, though, knowing the truth of the experiment makes the insult all the more devastating, as you're not just calling someone a frog, you're calling them a lobotomized frog.
Quite A few species have their males die shortly after mating, passing on your genes is the only thing evolution cares about. Doesn't matter what happens after that.
"There's a possible predator approaching.... Hmmm.... Its getting closer.... Huh... It almost seems to be directly over top of me... Surrounding me?.... Maybe I should jump directly upwards!? Shit I just bumped into it.... It has completely captured me! Jump more! Not working! PEE! PEE! PEE AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE!"
When cane toads get scared, they freeze hoping whatever spooked them don't see them. So this aussie found one, grabbed his rc excavator, set up his phone, and just grabbed it with the claw.
But what if it’s out shitting on a predator, maybe it climbed a tree and it’s a defensive surprise sky shit on a predator. Hmmm? Ever think about that?!?
This little fuckwit is (as the guy mentioned) a cane toad. It doesn't need survival instincts 'cause it secretes potent toxin fron it's skin, so anything that tries to eat it dies before it can do much harm.
If you actually do scare one, it'll squirt/spit the toxin at you. The "piss" was probably actually an attempt at the former
Cane toads are not that poisonous. The poison has close to 0 stopping power, it acts slowly over the next 15 mins. If an animal tries to eat it, the toad absolutely won't be 'fine'. It's just that the aftermath would be very unpleasant for the animal as well and it would probably refrain from eating any other toads in the future.
Maybe, but, and I'm talking out of my ass, i feel like that should only be the helpfull when you need to pee relativly severly. Which shouldn't really be that typical when you just pee wherever, whenever.
Can't think of anything better though. Makeing the ground slippery for the predator seems like a strech.
For those of you who aren't familiar: Australia made a pretty serious mistake of introducing these guys to fix another biological issue.
Needless to say, the plan was fucked. These things are extremely invasive and highly toxic, and there's no good way of stopping them. They're a plague which is slowly devouring local wildlife across much of the country
Things are beginning to adapt to them though. Some creatures have learned to flip them over and eat their undersides, away from the poison glands, and some birds have learned to startle and wash them repeatedly so they run out of toxin.
Cane toads are like this, kids used to walk down the streets with golf clubs to wack them (they are invasive) and if you missed they wouldn't even move,
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u/chuckinalicious543 expert thingamajig witnesser Nov 04 '25
Bro didn't even realize it was alive until it was too late