#burrowing frog

[herpsandbirds]

Giant Burrowing Frogs (Heleioporus australiacus), STANCED THE FUCK UP!!!, family Limnodynastidae, NSW, Australia

ENDANGERED.

photographs by Jesse’s Wildlife 

[sitting-on-me-bum]

A newly described burrowing frog, Synapturanus danta, from the Peruvian Amazon has a tapir-like snoot and resembles chocolate.

Photo by Germán Chávez.

[curseofthefae]

LOOK AT HIS FACE

AND HIS LITTLE BUTT

[toadschooled]

The Chitwan frog [Sphaerotheca maskeyi] is a small burrower native to Nepal, and possibly Bhutan and India. They inhabit forests and grasslands, particularly those that flood seasonally. They are also known as Maskey's Burrowing Frog to some. Images taken in Chainpur by Paul Freed.

[funkyfrogoftheday]

today's funky frog of the day: the burrowing frog (Sphaerotheca breviceps)!!!! they live in bangladesh, myanmar, india, nepal, and pakistan.

photo © 2010 Parag Dandge

[bjekkergauken]

Trying out gouache, painted some small frog portraits

Left to right, top to bottom:

European tree frog, mexican burrowing frog, strawberry poison dart frog, red-eyed leaf frog, african bullfrog, blue poison dart frog, rain frog, ornate burrowing frog, polkadot treefrog, amazonian poison dart frog, Fleischmann’s glass frog, amazon horned frog, crucifix frog, ruby poison dart frog, Pebas stubfoot toad, tomato frog

[natureisthegreatestartist]

Can this creature actually exist? Oh yes. It’s a blunt-headed burrowing frog (Glyphoglossus molossus), which is native to Southeast Asia.

[typhlonectes]

The Amazing Mexican Burrowing Toad (or Drunken Toad) - Mass Breeding Event in Costa Rica

This wonderful frog has been described as a 'bag of bones' or perhaps more suitably,  as  a 'rotund bag of jelly with five short protrusions (4 legs and a head)'.  It is highly fossorial (adapted to burrowing underground) and is rarely seen above ground except to breed after the first heavy rains of the year. An interesting quirk is that they smell like Peanut Butter!

This species is adapted to feeding on termites and its larvae look like miniature catfish. Locally it is known as the “Sapo Borracho” which means “Drunken Toad” as to some it sounds like someone...well, you get the idea. Most of this video centers on R. dorsalis, but as there were other frog species calling in some of the clips, I have added a video clip of showing the main other species calling, the common milk frog (T. typhonius). It is located before the photos at the end.

This rare footage was taken by Alexander Wilson and Robert Puschendorf (both from the University of Plymouth) while conducting research in Area de Conservación Guanacaste (Santa Rosa) in Costa Rica.   

via: Alexander Wilson