Killer Tadpoles From Hell!

A while ago I posted pictures of my little frog tank at work. I picked up some tadpoles off the side of the road, they grew into cute little frogs, and the 11 I now have are still going strong. They are slowly growing and currently between 1 and 2 inches big.
Enter the Sonoma Creek. Last Tuesday Victoria and I were passing a bridge and I noticed some movement down there. “Look, there’s fish down there!”, I said. Big ones, too, idly floating in the warm water. But something didn’t seem quite right, and a second (and third) look revealed the truth: those were bullfrog tadpoles. Half-foot long tadpoles with bodies as big as golfballs. Tadpoles that could swallow my 2 month-old frogs in one gulp. If you’ve been growing up in America this might not be news to you, and I’ve certainly seen my share of tadpoles in the last 30 years. But growing up in Germany I’d never seen anything that came even close in size! I haven’t been able to go back yet to take pictures, but maybe I’ll do so this weekend.