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Party Frogs are here! Ok, so rain frogs might not look like they’re having a good time, but this box is guaranteed to contain a real frog party. Not all frogs are qualified to be Party Frogs, but this soft vinyl set of four, 1-1/2" to 2-1/4" tall rain frogs is built for one rager after another. You can tell from their hats that they are true, grumpy, party amphibians.
Uncharismatic Fact of the Day
Make sure to cover your ears around the common coquí! Although adults are only 5 cm (1.9 in) long, they are thought to have one of the loudest calls of any frogs. Males attempting to attract females have been recorded at topping 100 decibels-- that's as loud as a lawn mower!
(Image: A common coquí (Eleutherodactylus coqui) by Chris Brown)
Day 310#: Nguru Warty Frog
Today's animal of the day is the Nguru Warty Frog (Callulina meteora)!
Photo credit: Michele Menegon
This tiny species of critically endangered frog inhabits the rainforests of Tanzania, and more specifically, they can only be found in the Nguru South Forest Reserve up in the Nguru Mountains. These frogs belong to the family Brevicipitidae, which are commonly known as rain frogs. Frogs in this family spend most of their time buried underground or under the leaf litter, so not a whole lot is known about them or their behavior in the wild. Though this species, as well as some other members of Breviciptidae, are surprisingly good climbers compared to other frogs in their family. The fact that this species has such a small range, which is only becoming smaller and smaller due to habitat loss, makes it even harder for scientists to observe them in the wild.
Photo credit: Michele Menegon
Like many other frogs, the females are much larger than the males. This is because males will ride on the backs of the females during the breeding season and glue themselves together using a special secretion that males produce from a gland on their vents and females from a gland on their backs. This helps prevent the pair from being separated by a rival male before they are able to mate. Interestingly, some species of rain frogs, such as those in the Breviceps and Probreviceps genera, don't go through a tadpole stage and instead emerge as tiny froglets right out of the egg. While it's currently unknown if the Nguru warty frog also skips this stage, many herpetologists suspect that it does, along with many other species of breviciptine frogs.
Tiny round rain frog wakes up, yawns, rubs his eyes, then squeezes himself into his tiny hole.
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Episode 27 of the SquaMates Podcast is out now! You can tune into the Premiere over on YouTube now! This one is all about Rain Frogs, family Brevicipitidae! You can also get it on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and most other podcast streaming services!
Show notes on our homepage, squamatespod.com!
Rain frogs rain frogs rain frogs rain frogs!!
BILBO HAS A FROG SPECIES NAME AFTER HIM!!!!!!
rain frogs delight me. it is believed that most of these guys skip the aquatic tadpole stage and go straight from egg to chunky lil beeferoni. they look like if someone stuck a face on a butt. this lends to their strong and formidable posture.
