What a great story

**Reposting because the mods deleted the gilded, upvoted original comment. I guess the mods of /r/aww condone and are for animal abuse considering this is still here even though it blatantly violates rule 1.***

**Reminder:*** these types of images are almost always staged using dead or abused animals (I.e. gluing them to stuff or to each other, or using fishing line to tie them). It’s pretty obvious that this is one too just by the fact that frogs don’t hug branches like this, they hold on with their hands. This frog’s hands are very unnaturally clasped together. **In fact, those two thin black lines wrapped around its left arm is likely the wire or string the sick bastard who made this photo used to bind its arms together.**

So yes, OP, what a great story about animal abuse and mistreatment to create stupid artificial and staged photos that /r/aww never fails to eat up and promote.

Please stop upvoting this garbage.

**Edit**: As others below have pointed out, this is from Kurit Afsheen. He does this stuff all the time so of course it was him. Like the time he broke the frogs jaw to make its mouth open. Frogs use buccal pumping to breath so they never leave their mouths just open as it in effect makes them unable to breath

Here's another open mouth pic of his

Or his nice dead frog photo with its eyes glazed and partly closed, draped over a plant

Also, the reason there's always a single branch and some ridiculous DOF blurry background is all of these are staged but he LARPs that they're taken in nature where he just magically comes across them, over and over and over. Even though a lot of the animals in his pictures aren't from the same regions, or aren't in the right environments, etc.

Terrible.

Comment by [deleted] at 16/10/2018 at 01:11 UTC

179 upvotes, 4 direct replies

These pictures always make me uncomfortable, knowing one or both of the critters is dead and even if they're alive they are painfully tied up with fishing line.

Comment by [deleted] at 16/10/2018 at 01:57 UTC*

698 upvotes, 19 direct replies

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Comment by Penguin_Q at 16/10/2018 at 01:47 UTC

79 upvotes, 1 direct replies

Is this one of the pictures produced by that particular notorious Indonesian photographer who literally glued frogs and snails together?

Comment by ferah11 at 16/10/2018 at 02:01 UTC

27 upvotes, 0 direct replies

I think they are both dissected, the frog don't change pose, just angle...

Comment by seanjenkins at 16/10/2018 at 06:45 UTC

22 upvotes, 0 direct replies

Thanks for the depression reddit

Comment by Ryengu at 15/10/2018 at 21:58 UTC

347 upvotes, 3 direct replies

Yondu's new backstory

Comment by thendog26 at 16/10/2018 at 07:32 UTC

21 upvotes, 0 direct replies

I wonder if OP knew they were actually dead or not before posting

Comment by kemzo at 16/10/2018 at 02:19 UTC

44 upvotes, 1 direct replies

Please see this: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.pbs.org/newshour/amp/science/whimsical-wildlife-photography-isnt-seems

Comment by CoolestBurrito at 17/10/2018 at 21:03 UTC

12 upvotes, 0 direct replies

report it, please. upvoting pics of dead animals is kinda disgusting

Comment by [deleted] at 16/10/2018 at 15:27 UTC

13 upvotes, 0 direct replies

Yes this looks like a dead frog being posed. It is not gripping the branch with its pads. Frog is also not eating the butterfly. It is a dumb animal if it sees food it eats food. This frog is dead.

Photographer has a history of doing this.

Comment by TheMagikShortBus at 15/10/2018 at 21:37 UTC

64 upvotes, 2 direct replies

"Hello fren would you like to be my hat?"

Comment by dontuforget at 15/10/2018 at 21:35 UTC

48 upvotes, 2 direct replies

Their parents said it would never work.

Comment by [deleted] at 15/10/2018 at 21:57 UTC

12 upvotes, 0 direct replies

That butterfly is tripping balls now.

Comment by dohrk at 15/10/2018 at 21:56 UTC

11 upvotes, 1 direct replies

It's a better story than Twilight.

Comment by rlhoffmann at 15/10/2018 at 21:42 UTC

12 upvotes, 0 direct replies

When you put your food on your head.

Comment by [deleted] at 16/10/2018 at 08:02 UTC

6 upvotes, 1 direct replies

This frog is very obviously dead, it's vile that people do this just for the sake of a photo