#flying frogs

[stickyfrogs]

Two more Exceptional Friends that we met at Kubah National Park in Borneo! They are Harlequin Tree Frogs (Rhacophorus pardalis), members of a group of frogs known as the flying frogs for their ability to glide from the treetops!

[inatherps]

False Malabar Gliding Frog (Rhacophorus pseudomalabaricus)

Observed by akshaybhandari95, CC BY-NC

[oldschoolfrp]

If a frog had wings he wouldn't bump his ass a-hoppin' -- Nathan Arizona Sr

(Flying frogs by Dave Trampier, Dragon 40, August 1980)

[antiqueanimals]

From Frogs, Toads, and Salamanders, and How They Reproduce. Illustrated by Matthew Kalmenoff. 1975.

[julienaimefairedesgif]

Flying frogs for Grogu in the Book of Boba Fett. S01e06

[itsfrogtober]

frog of the day :)

this cutie pie is agalychnis spurrelli, common names: Gliding leaf frog, gliding tree frog, Spurrell’s leaf frog, pink sided tree frog

(Image source)

Habitat: subtropical/tropical lowland forests

Found in: Costa Rica, Panama, Columbia, Ecuador

Fun fact(s): They are nocturnal (like most frogs) and live all the way up in the canopies of the trees.

It is named after the British author and zoologist Herbert George Flaxman Spurrell (long name)

These are a type of flying (or gliding) frog. Their common names may suggest they are the only ones, but there are quite a few more. Flying frogs are all tree frogs (with the exceptions of some toads) and do not have a genus, family, or subfamily all to themselves. They are unexpectedly scattered all throughout various groups.   

[faeree-layne]

Tuesday (1991) David Wiesner

[intheheatherbright]

“... the frogs ... had the map of the whole world in their heads ...”

The Blue Bird, Madame d’Aulnoy.

Andrew Lang, editor, The Green Fairy Book, illustrations Dorothy Lake Gregory, (New York: Longmans, Green and Co. 1949).