Meatbag the softball size pacman frog eats a chicken{A Pacman frog is any member of the subfamily Ceratophryinae with a characteristically large mouth and abdomen, thus resembling the video game character Pac-Man. | Pacman frogs are considered Horned Frogs and the majority are endemic to South America. | The prototypical example of a Pacman frog is the Argentine horned frog. | A female Pacman frog will not chirp, or croak, whereas a male specimen of the same species will. | Males frequently have spotted chests. | Males will also sometimes have pads on their front legs during mating season (these are very hard to see though). | The average lifespan of a Pacman frog is about 6 years, but they have been known to live up to 14 years in captivity. | They are voracious eaters, often eating insects, small mammals (such as mice), fish, other frogs, and small reptiles. | A fully grown female Argentine Horned Frog (females are generally larger than males) can easily eat a grown rat. | Although these frogs can swallow animals almost half their size, they sometimes attempt to eat things larger than they are. | A row of sharp teeth in their upper jaw makes it nearly impossible for them to release prey after taking it in their mouth, in some cases leading to death by choking. | The Argentine Horned Frog (Ceratophrys ornata), also known as the Argentine wide-mouthed Frog or Pacman frog, is the most common species of Horned Frog, from the rain forests of Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil. | A voracious eater, it will attempt to swallow anything that moves close to its wide mouth, such as insects, small birds and mammals, lizards and other frogs, even if it would suffocate in the process. | The females can grow to be 14 centimeters ( 5-6 inches) long and the males 10 centimeters (34 in). | The lifespan is 6 to 7 years, however they can live up to 10 years. | The Horned frogs most prominent feature is its mouth, which accounts for roughly half of the animals overall size. | Coloration is typically bright green with red markings, though dark green, parti-color black and albino versions also exist. | Sexing this species is very difficult, and the only dimorphism between the two sexes is size and that males have dark pigmented throats. | Horned frogs hunt by remaining motionless, and waiting for prey. | Anything that can fit in their mouths, and some things that cant, is prey. | Reproduction is sexual. | The Argentine Horned frog mates similar to dogs because the male grasps the hind limbs of the female and bends them over. | Female horned frogs deposit 2000 eggs in water and within two weeks they become tadpoles. | Known in the pet industry as Pacman frogs, the Argentine variety is usually the hardiest species and is easy to care for. | The Argentine Horned frog has simple requirements as a pet. | An aquarium of at least ten gallons will do. | Because they are very poor swimmers and spend their time buried in soil and leaf litter in the wild, the only water in the tank should be a shallow bowl – with water shallow enough that they cannot possibly drown in it. | The rest of the tank should be peat moss or coconut fiber or similar substrate, deep enough that they can bury themselves in it as they would in their natural habitat. | Care must be taken to avoid substrate with rocks or gravel that could be eaten by accident while hunting, causing fatal impactions in the stomach. | It is recommended to keep horned frogs alone to avoid cannibalism. | A preferred temperature for the cage is from 72 to 85 degrees Fahrenheit, and moist conditions. | Cranwells horned frog (Ceratophrys cranwelli), also called the Chacoan horned frog, is a terrestrial frog endemic to the dry Gran Chaco region of Argentina. | Like most members of the genus Ceratophrys, they are often considered Pacman frogs because of their uncanny resemblance to the popular video game character of the same name. | Most adult species range from 8-13 cm long (3-5 in) and can weigh up to 500gm (1 lb). |The backs of these frogs typically have dark green and brown coloration, although albino variants with orange and yellow backs also exist. | The dark color scheme aids in camouflaging the animal as it burrows and waits for its prey. | Though generally inactive, they are aggressive eaters, and are capable of leaping for several body lengths in order to capture prey. |Cranwells are nocturnal and rest with their eyelids open. | They are ordinarily carnivorous, feeding mostly on insects and like-sized animals, and are known to cannibalize other frogs. | At extreme temperatures, Cranwells frogs enter a period of aestivation, developing a thick layer of protective skin to trap moisture and aid in respiration. | When aestivation is complete, the frog uses its front and hind legs to help shed the protective layer. | In many cases, the frog uses its jaws to help pull the skin over its back, often eating the skin in the process. | Like many Pacman frogs, Cranwells are very popular as pets. | As such, they should be kept in a humid environment such as an aquarium with moist substrate (not gravel). | They should be fed a mixed diet of gut-loaded crickets, mealworms, small mice, and feeder fish. | As a rule of thumb, these frogs should be fed every 2-3 days until the age of 18 months, at which point they should be fed once every 10-14 days. | Because of their large mouths, these frogs are particularly susceptible to impaction, a condition whereby the frogs gastrointestinal tract is obstructed by a foreign body accidentally swallowed. | The foreign body can be almost anything, but in Pacman frogs kept as pets, it is commonly a small rock or piece of gravel used as substrate. | Impaction often leads to constipation and malnutrition, and possibly death unless treated promptly with laxatives such as the osmotic diuretic lactulose. | In severe cases, the volume of feces in the intestines is so large that the lungs are obstructed and the frogs breathing is impaired. | Surgery is often the only alternative in these cases, although it is rarely performed because of its typically prohibitive costs. | The Ceratophryinae, known as common horned frogs, are a subfamily of the leptodactylid frogs. | All species in this subfamily live in South America. | Ceratophrys is a genus of frogs in the family Leptodactylidae. | They are also known as South American horned frogs as well as Pac-Man frogs due to their huge mouths. ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||}