#notaden

[herpsandbirds]

Desert Spadefoot Toad (Notaden nichollsi), FUCKIN' STANCED!!!, family Limnodynastidae, Western Australia

photograph by Mick Fullerton

[snototter]

A crucifix spadefoot frog (Notaden bennettii) in Walgett, NSW, Australia

by stephenmahony

[markscherz]

What frog would be the best for a wizard? Like if a wizard wanted to ponder a frog and not an orb, what are the most ponderable frogs?

No question, Myobatrachus gouldii

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The first thing the wizard would want to ponder is 'what the fuck has happened to this frog? How did it wrong the Wild Mother to be treated this way?'

But if you don't want a frog that tumblr might flag as inappropriate, consider Notaden bennetti, the aptly named 'crucifix frog'

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[frogs-from-bogs]

Notaden bennettii by paulhypnos

[typhlonectes]

This is a Crucifix Frog, and for the first time ever in captivity, Melbourne Zoo’s keepers bred them last year!

In the wild, these little frogs live underground and emerge after rain to mate. For years keepers have been researching and understanding mating patterns and thanks to an ingenious Melbourne Zoo keeper, after playing a 10-hour-long YouTube clip of a thunderstorm and creating the right environment, they got in the mood!

via: Zoos Victoria

[frogs-are-awesome]

Desert Spadefoot Toad (Notaden nichollsi) by Stephen Zozaya Windorah, Queensland, Australia.

[phrogges-nest]

when we think of a frog, we imagine it relaxing on a lily pad on the edge of a lake, lazily catching flies with its long, sticky tongue. but did you know that some hardy frog species have adapted to survive in some of the driest places in australia?

[herpsandbirds]

Desert Spadefoot Toad (Notaden nichollsi), family Limnodynastidae, Newhaven Wildlife Sanctuary, on Ngalia-Warlpiri/Luritja Country in the NT, Australia

photograph by T Henderson Australian Wildlife Conservancy