This insatiable appetite can have fatal
consequences; they have been found dead in the wild with the remains of an
impossible-to-digest victim still protruding from their mouths.
A fiercely aggressive creature, the horned frog will attack anything it sees as a
threat, even animals many times its own size and bulk. It can inflict painful
bites, and a row of sharp teeth in its upper jaw makes it nearly impossible to
let go of its prey once it has captured it. Its vicious reputation has given root
to an Argentinean superstition suggesting that if a horned frog bites the lip
of a grazing horse, the horse will die (in actuality, horned frog bites are not
poisonous). Amazon villagers have been known to wear high leather boots
called botas escuerzas to repel attacks by the highly territorial Amazon
horned frog.
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