Word: frogging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What might happen if a small, green, succulent frog were placed before three hungry, venomous snakes? Frederick William Fitzsimons, for 25 years director of the snake park and museum at Port Elizabeth, South Africa, lately found out. He took progressive photographs of the affair and sent them to the London Graphic, which published them last fortnight under the headline, "Dinner for Three: Digestion...
First to come at the small, green, succulent frog was a four-foot schaapstecker (sheepsticker) snake. As the frog began disappearing head first down the schaapstecker's narrow gullet, a puffy night adder moved near. Seeing the adder, the schaap-tecker gulped hard to get its meal down safely; but the quick adder got hold of the frog's right hind leg, started swallowing the prize from that...
...snakes glared into each other's cold beady eyes, along came snake No. 3, a six-foot Cape cobra, which coiled itself nearby and raised its hooded head to inspect the tug-of-frog...
Then the cobra put down its head and glided forward. With a hungry gape of its flexible lower jaw it seized the frog by the middle and started swallowing it in a third direction. The schaapstecker and the adder, to their undoing, held on grimly...
Soon, by a series of forward jerks, the cobra shoved its jaws over the heads of the other two snakes. Its fangs sank home, its venom flowed, the adder and the schaapstecker went limp and helpless. Then slowly down the cobra's jerking, gullet passed frog, snakes and all. proving that in the snake world, victory is to him whose mouth holds most...