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What does a frog do when it swallows? Why does it blink?

Gustavo 'Gus' Fring
2020-10-27 02:25:33
Frogs swallow their food directly, blinking as they swallow. And sometimes they blink very fast. Generally speaking, the bigger the food that frogs have to swallow, the more times they blink, and the faster they blink. Frogs don't stop blinking until they've completely swallowed their food. This is because frogs have no bones under their eyes, and swallowing causes the muscles of the eyes to contract.
What does a frog do when it swallows? Why does it blink?

Frogs

are omnivores, but generally speaking, animal feed accounts for a large proportion of their diet, because frogs mainly eat insects. In particular, many pests distributed in farmland can become food for frogs. When frogs eat, they swallow the insects directly. Although there are some teeth in their mouths, these teeth do not play a role when they eat, and they use direct swallowing to eat food.

Frogs have big mouths, so some of the bigger insects can be swallowed directly. In the process of swallowing, the frog also blinks, and sometimes the rate of blinking is very fast. In general, the larger the food that the frog swallows, the more they blink. When the frogs have eaten the food completely, they will stop blinking.

2. Why do frogs blink

when they swallow? Frogs swallow their food by swallowing, and they blink at the same time, sometimes for a long time. This is because frogs have a special eye structure. There is no bone under their eye socket, which results in only a thin film between their eyes and their mouths. Therefore, every time the frog swallows the food in its mouth, the muscles of its eyes will contract involuntarily, and the frog will blink constantly from the outside. At the same time, blinking is also helpful for frogs to swallow food, because the muscles in the eyes produce a kind of pressure to help frogs swallow food.

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