It's frog-eat-frog in the amphibian dating game, study reveals

It's frog-eat-frog in the amphibian dating game.

An ecologist has captured the moment a female green and golden bell frog attempted to eat a male suitor.

Dr John Gould, from the University of Newcastle in Australia, observed the female holding onto his leg with a firm bite.

During the encounter, which Dr Gould captured on video, a high-pitched scream is audible from the male as he struggles to escape her grasp, and being pulled deeper into a depression on the side of a pond during the breeding season.

The situation unfolded on Kooragang Island, north of Sydney, while Dr Gould was studying one of the last remaining strongholds for the threatened frog.