The quickest run from mouth to anus was just six minutes.
“Further experiments are needed to investigate how to stimulate the frogs to defecate,” says Sugiura. “However, I speculate that R. attenuata use legs and the body to stimulate the frog’s hind gut.”
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Sugiura found that 93 percent of the beetles he fed to the frog Pelophylax nigromaculatus escaped the predator’s vent within four hours, frequently entangled in fecal pellets.