r/WTF • u/stopshort11 • 15d ago

Found this in the parking lot of my condo this morning..

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We live in South Kihei here on Maui.. see these toads all the time at night here. Seems this guy had a rough night...

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u/3amGreenCoffee 15d ago

That's its stomach. They expel their stomachs inside out when they're poisoned and try to scrape the lining clean to get rid of toxins. Looks like this guy didn't succeed.

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u/OSHA-Slingshot 14d ago

They expel their stomachs inside out when they're poisoned and try to scrape the lining clean to get rid of toxins

Imagine if we could do that instead of getting food poisoning. 

"Yeah honey, I'll be right there, need to finish showering my stomach real quick" 

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u/Text_Watson 14d ago

Imagine if we could do that after a night of heavy drinking instead of dealing with our alcoholism responsibly. By "we" I mean "I".

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u/Channel250 14d ago

Ugh. Id probably just forget and show up to work with my stomach outside my body.

I'd also probably wonder why everyone is looking at me funny

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u/SuitableClassic 13d ago

"If you're nervous talking in front of people, just imagine everyone in the audience all forgot to suck their stomachs back into their bodies."

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u/Channel250 13d ago

I just start off asking the audience to imagine me naked.

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u/Not_A_Real_Goat 9d ago

You’re hired!

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u/TahoeLT 13d ago

If you think the dream about going to work without your pants is embarrassing, wait until you have this dream!

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u/bananaphil 11d ago

You could just throw up in front of your house after getting out of the uber like the rest of us, same result.

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u/DontEatTheFish25 14d ago

Nah you mean we

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u/lsdisciple 13d ago

It wouldn’t really work like that. Bulimics would love it though

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u/Sanchastayswoke 13d ago

I’d like to do this with my uterus once a month too please lol

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u/Br0boc0p 14d ago

Let's see Perkins pie put me in the hospital now.

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u/lady_hams 14d ago

I'm nosey, I need to know why a pie put you in the hospital. Or was it just cause it was from Perkins?

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u/Br0boc0p 14d ago edited 13d ago

It gave me food poisoning so bad that my gf gave me a cutoff for getting clothes on to go to the hospital before she called an ambulance because it took me 10 minutes of falling asleep off and on to put my pants and a sock on. I have never in my life thrown up as continuously or dry heaved as long as I did that night and I've been pretty stomach sick a time or two. They gave me 2 liters of Saline at the hospital. It was during the 2014 Ebola scare and people in the ER moved away from me because I was so visibly wrecked.

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u/Hungry_Breadfruit_16 12d ago

I went through something like that, 12 days of puking my guts out!

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u/MlordLongshanking 13d ago

That would be awesome! I am currently dealing with a very extended period of gastrointestinal distress and U wish I could do this right now.

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u/NikkiLaRue 9d ago

I'll bet everyone who got explosive diarrhea from the bad lettuce would have traded their firstborn for this ability🤢🤮

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u/WestleyThe 15d ago

That’s HORRIFYING but also pretty freaking cool haha

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u/Desperate_Level_9213 15d ago

That is so sad

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u/SideclimbingSpit 15d ago

nope it's not. these guys are highly invasive cane toads and are destroying the local ecosystems in Hawaii.

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u/Vaping_Cobra 15d ago

And Australia, I recognised it right away and went to grab my cricket bat to help op humanely euthanize it again. Thankfully the magpies around here have learned to flip em over and have a little snack without dying but the population still grows.

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u/NagashStos 14d ago

Are cricket bats just super tiny?

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u/Electrical-Rope3959 14d ago

Nice MIB reference.

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u/Choctopuss 14d ago

For beatin up bugs

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u/No_Appointment_7232 14d ago

Great visual 😁😆

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u/Wacky_Bruce 15d ago

You can still feel sad for invasive species.. it’s not like they know they’re invasive.

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u/kinokomushroom 15d ago edited 15d ago

It's weird how people's feeling towards an individual animal's death turns from "sad" to "actually not so sad" as soon as they find out it's an invasive species. Like, who brought these animals away from their native lands and labeled them as "invasive" when they started reproducing? We humans did.

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u/iamnotexactlywhite 15d ago

doesn’t make it any less true though. they need to be culled or the ecosystem suffers. doesn’t matter why or how did they get there

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u/PinkUnicornCupcake 14d ago

Needing to remove them from the ecosystem doesn’t justify doing so by any means possible. This was obviously a pretty awful way to go when the animal turned itself inside out trying to survive. And secondary poisoning is a very real thing when scavengers then eat the toads and are poisoned themselves.

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u/Mosark_ 14d ago

I think spotted lanternflys are amazing, they’re incredibly aware, their backs are really pretty when they fly, but every one I see gets stomped out. It’s unfortunate but no one else is going to look out for local ecosystems. Putting the blame on whoever brought them here doesn’t negate the harm caused.

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u/ditruk2000 14d ago

Me when I killed like 7 in 5 minutes earlier today 🥺

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u/Wrong_way_zzz 13d ago

We are talking about Humans, right ?

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u/Mayday72 14d ago

The need to cull an animal is sad, and should be considered sad. It's not even debatable unless you're a sociopath or something.

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u/Hanner12 14d ago

Yes this. It is okay that acknowledge they are damaging and need to be dealt with while admitting it’s really sad an animal suffers.

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u/Kanotari 14d ago

The cars in Hawaii have been 'helping' in that regard for years. So many flattened toads... it looks comical, like someone just stuck paper cutouts of toads in the road.

Here's to fewer cane toads in Hawaii, and hopefully removed more ideal environment instead of the afterlife.

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u/obli__ 12d ago

Could say the same for humans

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u/SideclimbingSpit 15d ago

And because we humans created the issue, it falls upon us to fix it. Would you sacrifice dozens of endemic species to avoid eliminating an invasive species that is wreaking havoc across an ecosystem where they have no natural predators?

Do you know what mongoose, cane toads, and cats all have in common? They've all led, either directly or indirectly, to the extinction of species in Hawaii that are found nowhere else in the world. As humans, are we to stand idly by and let this damage occur or are we to attempt to fix the issues we created?

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u/trahh 14d ago

nobody is disagreeing with the method of fixing the issue, we're discussing feeling sad for an animal suffering, regardless of if they're invasive or not. nobody is saying to stop eradicating invasive species

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u/NazzerDawk 14d ago

I can feel sad for a fly when I swat it.

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u/disinterested_a-hole 14d ago

I'd give up several close relatives to get rid of fire ants.

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u/lumpyspacekitty 14d ago

You know two things can be true at once?

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u/2M4D 14d ago

Strawman strawman straaaaaaawmaaaaaaannnnn. Literally nobody is disagreeing with that fucking lmao.

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u/Baeolophus_bicolor 14d ago

agree. don’t even get me started on feral and “outside” cats. it’s sad but they are a largely unmitigated environmental catastrophe.

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u/Lady_Forget_Me_Not 14d ago

Especially when humans are the biggest culprits of invasive species there is.

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u/stmico 14d ago

This dude wouldn't pull the switch on the trolley

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u/mtutty 14d ago

That's because our shared conception of good and evil largely rests on the action's effects on society.

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u/RandomStallings 14d ago

They're also greedy a-holes. They've been found with stomachs full of baby toads. They just go around eating everything that will fit in their face. Kill 1 toad, save 200 other things.

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u/bravedubeck 14d ago

Wait til you find out about outdoor cats

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u/RandomStallings 14d ago

I almost brought that up as a perfect example. I am thoroughly enamored with cats, but outdoor cats are an absolute scourge. They eat, sleep, urinate/defecate and murder. They decimate entire populations of birds and anything else they possibly can.

Cats also reproduce at an astonishing rate while having few predators.

If some form of governing body was put in a position where, after trying other large scale methods, they simply had no choice but to start killing cats, I would only be worried about it being painless.

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u/_yuppyflu 15d ago

we are all born from death, and death keeps us alive

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u/strange_salmon 15d ago

right. technically humans are invasive to the earth too the way we consume and destroy everything on this planet.

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u/Electronic_Tap_8052 15d ago

you don't need to be sad, death is as much a part of life as life itself is.

nothing would be here without death.

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u/MyCarRoomba 15d ago

You can still be sad while acknowledging that death is inevitable. You're allowed to have feelings.

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u/blueminded 15d ago

Exactly. I doubt this was a comfortable death. It's just empathy. Something died in as much pain and fear as it could probably comprehend. That's fucking sad.

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u/kakihara123 15d ago

Ok, so no funerals anymore. Please never be sad when someone dies ,ever.

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u/SixGunChimp 14d ago

Nothing would be here without life either... whats your point?

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u/Desperate_Level_9213 15d ago

Two things can be true at the same time

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u/DontSweatThaPetty 14d ago

We have them in Florida. Cane or Bufo toad. Death is common for your dog if gets one in its mouth.

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u/Jenkins_rockport 14d ago

it can be both a good thing it died from an environmental impact perspective and also a sad thing it died in the way it did, i.e. it clearly suffered

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u/kakihara123 15d ago

And why does that matter? Is that specific animal.in any way responsible? Does it suffer any less because of it?

Are you happy when humans die in horrible ways because we are, as a matter of fact, the most invasive species on earth?

That lack of compassion and empathy is creepy.

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u/marginwalker76 14d ago

He was trying to get rid of the Obama chemicals so it wouldn't turn gay

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u/MouseRat_AD 14d ago

If only this world were more accepting, SMDH.

Shine on, you beautiful leather bear! Shake that ass on your great lilly pad in the sky.

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u/sturla-tyr 11d ago

SMDH? Why are you shaking your dick hard?

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u/thepornclerk 14d ago

THE FROG COMMUNITY!?!?

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u/-REXIA- 11d ago

Got cha, so not a frog smoking a crack pipe.

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u/3amGreenCoffee 11d ago

Ha ha it actually does sort of resemble a crack pipe.

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u/turquoise_amethyst 10d ago

Wonder what poisoned the lil guy, it doesn’t look like there was anything in it

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u/3amGreenCoffee 10d ago

Who knows. There are insects with a defense mechanism where they release something noxious or poisonous when eaten, then just walk away when the toad everts its stomach. Or this guy could have moved after he got rid of whatever killed him. There's no way to know for sure.

Amphibians are not very bright. Toads and frogs routinely eat things they shouldn't. This one went viral when a woman found it desiccated but still stuck to the outside of her house in Florida. I think she ended up donating it to a university.

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u/elenkaMorr 14d ago

I feel like I look like this every Friday.

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u/justintime06 11d ago

Wouldn’t the inside of the stomach still be on the inside though?

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u/3amGreenCoffee 11d ago

No, they turn it inside out, like inverting a sock. That's the lining of the stomach you're seeing.

What you can't see in OP's photo is the pylorus connecting the stomach back through the middle to the rest of the digestive system. This thread has a frog doing it, where you can see the hole:

https://www.reddit.com/r/frogs/comments/psw5wh/sos/

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u/Chukmanchusco 11d ago

Imagine if humans could do that lol, hangovers would be hell.

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u/osin144 15d ago

Is this something it ate or its stomach?

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u/3amGreenCoffee 15d ago

That's its stomach. They can't puke, so they turn their stomachs inside out and scrape the lining with their forelimbs to try to get rid of whatever is making them sick. It didn't work for this fellow.

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u/TheAwkwardBanana 15d ago

Well that's incredibly sad.

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u/mf99k 15d ago

if it makes you feel better these cane toads are highly invasive and bad for the native environment

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u/PresidentialDiapers 14d ago

And very poisonous to pets and wildlife.

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u/SnakeGD09 15d ago

The question is really whether it is pleasant to die while trying to scrape poison off your stomach with your own hands, not whether the animal is guilty of some sort of bio-crime.

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u/mf99k 15d ago

of course it's not the animal's fault for being invasive, but they often poison people's pets and native wildlife, meaning that if it truly died from poison itself, it's a weird sort of karma. If they aren't immune from their own toxins it's possible this toad attempted cannibalism and died as a result

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u/BadAdviceBot 15d ago

They’re also tasty with some fava beans a nice Chianti

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u/MelonOfFury 15d ago

Maybe not the poisoned ones

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u/IggyKami 15d ago

You mean "extra strong seasoning."

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u/syds 15d ago

quick how do I scrape my stomach lining?? i cant reach

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u/martialar 15d ago

it puts the lotion on the toad skin or else it gets the hose again

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u/SummonTarpan 15d ago

Ok Hannibal

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u/schlitz91 15d ago

Thanks. That did make me feel better.

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u/mah131 15d ago

How does it reconnect to the poop end?

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u/Enginerdiest 15d ago

It never disconnects. There’s enough slack for the distension. 

Imagine holding a pillowcase with a tube sewn to the closed end; so you could still put a pillow in it if you wanted. 

Now imagine turning the pillow case inside out. You don’t have to disconnect the tube. 

It’s exactly like a frog expelling its stomach. Exactly. 

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u/dbzmah 15d ago

I'm never using a pillow case again 

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u/webbitor 15d ago

What's the problem? Just turn it inside out.

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u/mah131 15d ago

Neat!

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u/3amGreenCoffee 15d ago

Here's a frog doing it, where you can see the pylorus that still connects it to the rest of the digestive system:

https://www.reddit.com/r/frogs/comments/psw5wh/sos/

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u/mah131 15d ago

Neat, thanks a ton!

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u/-StatesTheObvious 15d ago

Now I'm grateful for the ability to vomit!

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u/hfcobra 15d ago

Can't really feel sorry for him. Toads are absolute gluttons!

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u/Argylius 15d ago

Well, just a mouth with legs

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u/MelonOfFury 15d ago

You described my cat

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u/hfcobra 15d ago

A very hungry mouth.

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u/soggyfries8687678 15d ago

Huh, maybe puking ain’t so bad after all.

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u/cbftw 15d ago

First one then the other

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u/kubenzi 15d ago

He croaked

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u/EvasionOfTruth 15d ago

This should be way higher.

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u/WittyConference5512 15d ago

Poor guy really did cough up a lung

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u/Sleazy4you2say 15d ago

I believe the scientific term is hacked.

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u/Birdy1072 15d ago

Is it common to see them uh...so well preserved like that? I would've figured they would've rot or something instead of desiccating.

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u/blueminded 15d ago

I imagine this happened within around 24 hours. Frog died in the night and dried out in the sun when it rose. Other people have pointed out that they're poisonous to eat even after death, so maybe local wildlife has noticed that. I'm not sure how poison like that affects insects though.

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u/Hot_Poetry_6475 14d ago

Were you planning to eat it?

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u/jmkinn3y 14d ago

Maybe, what's it to you??

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u/Jtakii 13d ago

This is very much so not an uncommon sight on maui, these buggas are everywhere. The sun dries em out

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u/turquoise_amethyst 10d ago

Toads used to crawl into my house all the time, then get air dried from the AC unit. I think they dry pretty fast, I never found a rotted one

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u/janewalch 15d ago edited 15d ago

I think it’s rude to post a photo of me from last weekend after 40 beers.

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u/SeaToTheBass 15d ago

Wade Boggs?

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u/wilsonhammer 15d ago

RIP

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u/cleff5164 14d ago

Firsy off Wade boggs is very much alive

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u/Perma_Hexx 15d ago

Boss Hog is alive and well.

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u/seabass0 14d ago

Alive in our hearts

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u/arebee20 11d ago

beer me baby

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u/SeaToTheBass 11d ago

Beer me a beer

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u/mf99k 15d ago

at least it's a dead cane toad

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u/bahaaaaathrow123456 15d ago

Crappy part is that even when dead they can still kill anything that ingests it

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u/nohandsfootball 14d ago

Oh is that how they're invasive - because predators can't eat them?

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u/bahaaaaathrow123456 14d ago

Unfortunately for every thing that tries to eat them, yes they are. However, crows are learning that if they flip them on their backs and eat their stomachs, avoiding the toxic glands, they are edible. So hopefully they teach their friends because they are so devastating to native populations.

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u/Idont_think 13d ago

Crows are so bad ass!

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u/mf99k 13d ago

they also breed aggressively and eat anything smaller than them

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u/ElusiveWhiteTurtle 15d ago

I’ve seen two too many inside-out frogs in the past week.

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u/failedabortedfetus 13d ago

I was literally about to say the same thing, what’s up with people seeing it so much lately?

If I had a penny for every time I’ve seen this just in this week I’d have two.

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u/MrMilo443 15d ago

My first thought when seeing this pic was, “are you in Hawaii??” I also came across a dried frog in a parking lot on Oahu when I was there years ago.

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u/MiloIsTheBest 13d ago

If they didn't use the word "condo" I'd have assumed Australia. Smooshed cane toads are a common sight in my part of the country.

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u/Ok_Proof5782 15d ago

I’m no biologist and I’ve never been to Maui, but I think that’s a dying frog

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u/moistmonsterman 15d ago

Hes dead, Jim.

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u/Ok_Proof5782 15d ago

I don’t believe in a no win scenario.

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u/AdmiralSplinter 15d ago

If OP didn't turn it into a lamp, I'll be disappointed

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u/gearlegs4ever 15d ago

That frog died long ago. He's real leathery

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u/BrokenPickle7 14d ago

Are you sure? He might be fine

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u/SalvadorP 14d ago

Maybe it is just hibernating.

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u/Kalymzo 11d ago

Check his pulse

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u/gearlegs4ever 11d ago

He's dead, Jim.

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u/Ace_Harding 11d ago

I hope OP rehydrated him in a bucket of room temperature distilled water. He’d be good as new in 2-3 hours.

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u/MultipleOrgasmDonor 15d ago

You say this like it’s a common occurrence

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u/Royalchariot 15d ago

Bro has been dead way longer than 1 night

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u/GingerSnapsPeas 15d ago

Why is this not the first frog expells guts Pic I've seen here recently?

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u/Whooptidooh 14d ago

It ate something toxic, tried to throw up (manually push everything out of its stomach once the frog got it outside) and then died because the toxin did its work.

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u/BubonicBabe 15d ago

Are those pink things under him his lungs???

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u/Annual_Magician6989 14d ago

Those pink things are just little flowers.

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u/BubonicBabe 14d ago

Thank you. They weirdly looked attached to the frog somehow and I was trying to figure out what happened!

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u/DoesBasicResearch 15d ago

Those are his massive balls.

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u/gladpadius 13d ago

He probably ate a slug. They're super toxic to frogs and this is how they die trying...

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u/turquoise_amethyst 10d ago

Would the slug survive this? I don’t see one around?

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u/AcanthisittaGlobal30 15d ago

My dumb ass over here thinking it was a turtle somehow

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u/jasmineAlmond76 13d ago

So, I'm not saying that this is what happened, but when I was a child I saw some terrible little boys stomp on several frogs, forcing the guts out of their mouths. Being run over might be possible also.

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u/qwerd722 10d ago

It croaked to death

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u/Analog_Powered 14d ago

Looks like me after the first time I drank tequila.

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u/GamingIsMyCopilot 15d ago

I thought it was a Half Life head crab

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u/RadagastDaGreen 15d ago

Isn’t there some law that says you’re not allowed to bring frogs or toads to Hawaii? I thought it was a frogless place.

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u/JuanDeagusTheThird 14d ago

I am in this picture and i dont like it

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u/spaath 15d ago

Mmmmm pre deep fried. Hope you thanked mother nature for such a tasty gift. A shame the flavor pouch is on the outside though.

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u/DrewPBahlz7992 15d ago

this is what rat poison (those rat boxes condos place everywhere) does to the environment. wildlife tortured and slain.

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u/some_user_2021 15d ago

Kill... Me...

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u/methrik 15d ago

This why you dont spit your gum out the car window

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u/RIP_Greedo 15d ago

poor guy

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u/thirtynation 14d ago

That's just Richard.

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u/seaska84 14d ago

Was ran over by a car in the parking lot. Guts have to go somewhere. Dried in the heat of the sun and asphalt. Legs curled when dry, looking like it was walking before death.

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u/_Aech_ 14d ago

He was playing Frogger and lost. How ironic.

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u/KermitHendrix 13d ago

Air dried

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u/Coach_Seven 13d ago

More like air fried

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u/disterb 11d ago

this frog's car got toad

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u/dmj9 15d ago

Homeboy was smoking that loud and coughed out his lungs. RIP to my boy. Bout to smoke one for the brother. The good die young.

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u/Ichgebibble 15d ago

*grabs bong. Lfg!!

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u/iknowyoujelly 15d ago

I stepped on a frog like that on Oahu, and a similar organ ballooned out its mouth, just like your photo

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u/reddit_user13 15d ago

Pro tip: it’s too late to call the vet.

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u/garotovs 15d ago

Hahaha I live in Haiku how awesome to find someone from Kihei here

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u/ahumpsters 15d ago

Get well soon!

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u/ToonMasterRace 15d ago

Poor thing it's in agony and not long for its world

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u/morganational 14d ago

Is he balancing on a piece of bubble gum?

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u/Auto-Tune_Is_A_Crime 14d ago

I don't think he's going to make it

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u/Chiinoe 14d ago

Ray Gunn at it again.

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u/CWoww 14d ago

Wait……check his pulse…….

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u/_Aech_ 14d ago

He was playing Frogger and lost. How ironic.

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u/Careless_Till62 13d ago

Am Parkplatz meiner Mietwohnung habe ich sowas noch nie entdeckt

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u/Taralinas 10d ago

Poor thing. Such a horrible way to die.

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u/llama_ 13d ago

Donald Trumps final form

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u/DOGEweiner 15d ago

Is that the frog from Shrek?

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u/Zealousideal-Sail893 14d ago

Invasive or not, I have humanity.  Poor guy. 

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u/libu2 15d ago

Meth is a hell of a drug...

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u/LordHazlewood 14d ago

Humans are invasive. Especially my mother in law.

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u/Life-Oil-7226 15d ago

Dude definitely ate the wrong thing

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u/aurrea 15d ago

I almost expelled my stomach last weekend.