A couple from Canada were left stunned after they found a frog living inside one of their bell peppers while preparing dinner.
Thankfully, the amphibian was completely unscathed despite suffering a close call with a knife. The couple then placed the frog and its tiny home in a container.
Canadian authorities and the couple were baffled how the small frog got inside the whole green pepper.
The only one that had an idea how it got inside was the amphibian itself – which then resulted in some heartbreaking news.
After the couple found the frog, they gave it to the Quebec Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, and Food and they euthanized the animal!
But what’s only known is that it was identified as a green tree frog from Honduras.
Blackburn and Gagnon could not see any visible holes in the bell pepper. Gagnon said to Radio Canada: “It’s like the secret of Caramilk [reference for the kids, there], how the frog ended up in the pepper, I don’t know!”
“They cannot see it. A pepper is closed. You can’t see if there is a frog in there or not,” Blackburn added.
Canadian authorities receive around 20 cases like this every year but usually it concerns insects as those critters can easily find their way inside.
Yohan Dallaire-Boily, a MAPAQ spokesperson, said: “The analysis was carried out by euthanising the frog to carry out the laboratory expertise.
“If we analyse it, it’s for food security, to make sure everything is healthy for the people who have consumed it or not.”
Frog expert Patrick Moldowan, a director at the Canadian Herpetological Society, said: “It almost certainly did not come to be a sizeable adult frog by developing as a tadpole.
“For example, the egg development time, process of metamorphosis, and post-maturity growth (to reach adult size) are well beyond the time it takes a green pepper to grow.”
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