Predation on the Indian Bull frog Hoplobatrachus tigerinus (Daudin, 1802) (Anura: Dicroglossidae) by the Asian House Shrew Suncus murinus (Linnaeus, 1766) (Soricomorpha: Soricidae) from Nepal

Attempted predation by an Asian House Shrew, Suncus murinus (Linnaeus 1766), on an Indian Bullfrog, Hoplobatrachus tigerinus (Daudin 1802), in Bangladesh

“…Anurophagy on an Indian Bullfrog by an Asian House Shrew was reported recently in Nepal (Gautam and Bhattarai 2020), but the importance of equal-sized prey in the diet of the latter remains poorly understood. Gut content analysis of Suncus murinus indicated that arthropods constitute more than 80% of all food items (Khanam et al 2017) but laboratory experiments by Balakrishnan (1977) suggested that it readily consumes rodents and small frogs.…”