Interesting George, thanks for sharing.
question: have you found any remains of frogs in scats? I had many discussions with friends who studied GTPs (done scat analysis) and they don't believe that yellow juveniles consume small frogs. Yet, many of my CB hatchlings that were reluctant to take pinkies, went for frogs or frog scented pinkies with gusto. I can't imagine they evolved the taste for frogs in captivity LOL. My take is - small frogs would come out the other end in form of sludge, impossible to identify.
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No Michael. I still have a habit of checking out wild snake scats I've never found evidence of frogs and suspect that it's because the digestive juices would dissolve them rather quickly. I've dissected a few road killed juvenile pythons (not GTP's) and other species over the years and discovered the remains of recently eaten frogs so I'm convinced that where available frogs would contribute significantly to the diet of most of if not all juvenile Australian pythons (including GTP's), colubrids and large and small elapids. I've also used them very successfully in the past to scent rodent pinkies and weaners.
Cheers mate.