Frog for a Day

Ok, so imagine for a minute that you’re a frog. It’s the rainy season and there’s water all over the place. You’re absolutely loving life.⁠

One night you decide to go out for a hop to find some tasty insects to eat. In fact, you’re absolutely starving because you’ve spent the whole day sitting still and blending into your surroundings to avoid being eaten by all those pesky predators. But it’s fine, because fortunately you’ve also spent thousands of years evolving excellent night vision for this very occasion. It’s dinner time.⁠

You’re hopping along with a big froggy smile on your face and then suddenly you’re dead. The end. Unfortunately for you, you unwittingly hopped directly underneath a Pit Viper who had been waiting in ambush for days - maybe even weeks - just waiting for a frog like you to come along.

The worst bit about all this? You didn’t even make a noise that gave you away. The injustice! The viper used its stereo heat-sensitive pits to detect your body temperature and pinpoint your exact location, before striking at lightning speed and flooding your veins with venom. “But I’m cold-blooded, I didn't think I emitted a heat signature!” you cry from the afterlife, but it doesn’t matter now. #froglife