Description:
While adult frogs are typically carnivorous, tadpoles are typically herbivorous and feed on algae. However, Minecraft tadpoles can be fed slimeballs, the remains of an animal.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frog#Tadpoles>
What I expected to happen:
Tadpoles would not accept a player's offering of a slimeball. Perhaps they would instead accept kelp, which is made of algae.
What actually happened:
Tadpoles will eat slimeballs when a player offers them. It also speeds up their growth.
Steps to Reproduce:
Switch into creative mode, and spawn a tadpole.
Give oneself several slimeballs, and switch to Survival Mode.
Right-click on the tadpole while holding the slimeballs.
The tadpole will proceed to consume the slimeballs. Green particles do not appear (perhaps another bug), but the stack of slimeballs in one's inventory will slowly disappear. Eventually, the tadpole will grow into a frog.
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Most animals eat the same diet when young as when grown up. Frogs, however, are carnivorous as adults and herbivorous (algae-feeding, to be specific) as tadpoles. That's why I think adult frogs should eat slimes, while tadpoles should eat kelp.
The fix of MC-249260 suggests that tadpoles are supposed to eat slime balls so this is highly likely to be working as intended.
@Ayy In-game behaviour dies not necessarily need to match real-life behaviour, so I don't think that this report would be considered a valid bug report. If it is, then it is likely intended behaviour anyway as stated in Avoma's above comment.
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I don't think that's a glitch... Remember, in minecraft, the baby form of the animal can be fed the adult form's favored food to make he baby form grow up into the adult form sooner as well, so that might be what's going on here.