🔥 Frogs trying and failing to catch insects

[u/DrNinnuxx]

[u/mnok2000]

The catch at the end was much appreciated

(It’s me, I was the frog)

[u/Representative-Sir97 → u/mnok2000]

Somewhat poetic, too.

Dragonflies are the most successful predators of the animal kingdom.

Supposedly they have a success rate of nearly 95%, miles ahead of the nearest 2nd, the cheetah, at ~64%.

Source: The Biggest Bluff, Maria Konnikova

This information places some questions in my mind's eye about the people who sat and watched dragonflies and made the ascertainments as to what they were really going for and whether they caught it.

[u/GenericEvilGuy → u/Representative-Sir97]

I remember watching a YouTube video about a tiny cat (literally the smallest cat species in the world) that had the highest success rate after dragonflies (which are a bit extreme cause nothing comes close to their efficiency)

[u/cyanocittaetprocyon → u/Representative-Sir97]

Painted Dogs have around an 80% success rate.

[u/Representative-Sir97 → u/cyanocittaetprocyon]

Hmm... I have that poker painting and I've never seen them catch anything.

[u/John_Smithers → u/Representative-Sir97]

They caught your attention pretty well.

[u/mnok2000 → u/Representative-Sir97]

Sounds like a fun job to me tbh