This is a video about a female mandarin duck in a pond near Putten in the Netherlands. after the frog meal, she swims with her partner.
The maker of the video is Annie Goodschalk-Visch.
Mandarin duck photo: here.
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I was curious to know whether all the shaking was to rinse off the bufotoxin or because the frog was resisting in some way.
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Mandarin ducks eat mainly plant food, though sometimes fish or frogs:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandarin_Duck#Food_and_feeding
Maybe it took the mandarin duck so long because its bill is not adapted as well to eating animals like, eg, a merganser’s.
I once saw a mallard (still more adapted to plant feeding than a mandarin duck) trying to eat a fish. The fish was dead and small, so it should have been easy. But, apparently, the mallard did not have the right kind of bill for it.
See
https://dearkitty1.wordpress.com/2011/12/10/mallards-trying-to-eat-fish/
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