Frogs & Fish ?

[logman]

As an impressionable boy, I grew up believing the "myth"I had been told, that frogs could hop on the back of fish, (if no mate could be found) and strangle the life out of it, in later years I reasoned that a fish would surly just shake it off and swim away with great speed !

I just wondered if there was any grain of truth in it, anybody ever seen this happen ?

[andyjevs]

Yes there's truth in it

[clarabel82]

why would the frog want to strangle the fish?

[les saisies]

This is a very real problem for people who have expensive koi carp and get frogs in their ponds.

The frog attaches itself to the fish and suffocates it by preventing the fish from swimming. It is the swimming movement which forces water through the gills thus enabling the fish to extract oxygen from the water.

[logman]

Thank you for your answers, its a question thats bugged me for years and I was glad to find that someone had some first hand experience of it.