#australian ground frogs

[snototter]

A northern spadefoot (Notaden melanoscaphus) in Mornington, Kimberley, WA, Australia

by Melissa Bruton

[uncharismatic-fauna]

Uncharismatic Fact of the Day

It's a turtle! It's a frog! It's the turtle frog! Myobatrachus gouldii gets its common name from its looks; it's often described as resembling a small turtle without a shell. Aside from its looks, the turtle frog is known for its unusually long foreplay-- male turtle frogs begin calling for a mate four months before breeding with their partner!

(Image: A turtle frog (Myobatrachus gouldii) by Brendan Schembri)

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[kedreeva]

Well, Monday night, SOMEONE went on an unauthorized adventure.

We got home from going to see The Mummy (1999) at our local big screen, and it was just about hitting twilight. Bug was outside (big girl!! she's been outside for most of the day for the last few days) with Earl, so I went in and closed up Earl, then closed up Artemis' pen of birds, and then Bug and I walked down to close up the barn pen's door. We walked back around and I ducked into the barn to do a quick night check of the barn birds and the quarantine birds and the quail, something that takes less than 2 minutes, and when I got back outside.... no Bug.

Now, Bug often comes outside with me at night to lock up the other birds. We go from pen to pen together. She even hops up onto the fence runners up top and flies from one to the next, and across the alley, and often when she comes down, she'll fly up to the front side yard and then run back for the hell of it, or takes a right instead of a left and ends up out by the compost heap, so I walked both places calling her, expecting to see her pop her head up and come back like always.

But.... no Bug.

So I go inside, and get Sark, and we both start looking. Did she get spooked? Did she jump up someplace? I once searched for Beep for an hour on the ground, only to look up and find out she'd just been silently watching me from above. But after almost 2 hours of searching... no Bug.

Well, it was pouring down rain, and wherever Bug had gone, she was not talking back to us, and she certainly wasn't coming when called, so we gave up and came inside. I called the local PD to let them know one of my birds had escaped and despite looking for her, we had to stop because of the storm, but left my number in case anyone called. I stressed all night, dozing on and off. I got up around 1am to do another lap of the yard and see if I could hear her, now that the frog symphony was over and the rain had stopped, but no luck.

At 5am, I went out again, and parked myself in my car on the phone with my Australian friend, to await dawn. I figured, if she'd gone up to roost, then when it got light, she'd come down. Sark came out around 5:45 and parked himself out in the field by our firepit in case she went that way. Eventually I got up and walked up and down the street, since people were leaving for work, and I stopped a few cars and asked them to keep an eye out.

As I was walking back to the house, down our long drive, I spotted her on the barn roof just as my phone began to ring. Sark had seen her fly down from one of the 60ft tall oaks on the edge of our property. He got her some peanuts, and I called her down

She acted like nothing happened. Just like hey guys what's up?

So, no more outside time at night, unless she's in a pen! Which.... considering my day today, she may be outside full time soon!

[buster-loves-pr]

Some Mystic Force headcanons with the four rangers (basically before Nick came)

-Childhood friends. Chip met Vida and Madison when they were 5. Xander met them when they were 8.

-They were bullied a lot in elementary school and halfway through middle school. “The weird kids” Vida often got into fights with Xander sometimes shouting back or fighting too. Chip and Madison try their best to make sure they don’t get into too much trouble (Chip often had to hold Vida back from throwing punches)

-A lot of movie nights. They usually fit on the couch in Chip’s house and do a lot of movie marathons. Okay Xander usually falls on the ground but he sleeps fine there - Chip would often drag them into exploring the city of Briarwood. They know the city pretty well. -Before Xander, the trio were at a lake and found a turtle. Chip and Vida pick him up, Madison found him gross but nonetheless they were interested in him. They named him Leonardo (guess who named him) and played with him (like putting him on a skateboard and rolling him around) The turtle stopped showing up when they brought Xander to the lake. They were pretty sad

-Same lake had the frog that gave Madison her fear.

-The ballon merchant has been watching over the mystic children. He just doesn’t say much, wanting them to have normal lives. -Maddie has scrap books and videos of their childhood adventures

-It is hard for them to fully open up to people. While they will be friendly and are nice, becoming part of the friend group is kinda hard since the bullying really hurted them. Xander and Vida are more sociable but it will take time for them to really consider someone a close friend. And also insulting on the members will make it much harder. (They weren’t too quick to accept Nick since they didn’t know him too well and he did make fun of Madison earlier so-)

-They all believe and are interested in magic but Madison, Vida and Xander hide it since they don’t really want to deal with more harassment. Chip!s the only one comfortable showing his love for it

-They started having sleepovers after being rangers. Just knowing they’re all together and safe brings them peace after nightmares.

-Xander has a younger sister. She has an American but slight Australian accent. She’s 8 by the time Xander becomes a ranger

-Chip only has his mom. He lives with his uncle farm with her, and has a lot of fun there. It’s actually one of the places he brought his friends over to a lot, just exploring the farm.

-If there’s a party, they probably just stick to a corner. They like talking to people but it can be tiring so they just grab food and drinks and just stand there until the party is over

[novastaar]

Scar 🧷: Do they have any scars?

Nuh-uh 🫸: Is there anything they would REFUSE to wear?

Weather 🌦: What type of weather do they prefer?

One of my own I've added:

🗺️International Which versions of Dashi and Peso do they live with? (Australian or American Dashi? British or Spanish Peso.)

Yayy! Thanks for the ask!

🧷: Trixie actually has quite a few scars. Most of them are just from injuries she didn't leave alone and picked at (because I always do that). But she also has a claw mark on the side of her face and several other, much older scars on her stomach from when she was a kit (probably about 4 years old)

(I actually revised this image a while ago to show what I mean). Frog doesn't have scars, per se, but she does have a few places where she was dented or scraped, or just where their paint was scratched off.

🫸: Trixie doesn't like wearing much beside her usual outfit, but the only things she would refuse to wear would be stuff like crop tops and skirts. They just make her feel uncomfortable. She also doesn't like to wear boots in the desert, but she will in the Octopod or on some above ground missions. Frog, on the other hand, wouldn't ever willingly wear anything other than her usual outfit. She's very attached to it to the point where she gets anxious if she's wearing anything else

🌦: Trixie loves heavy rain. She doesn't like thunderstorms since her ears are so sensitive, but heavy rain is just so pleasant to listen to. Frog isn't a fan of weather in general, but they'd have to choose hot, sunny days. They were built to endure extremely hot temperatures, but they're sensitive to the rain and the cold

🗺: I actually haven't thought about this one much. It would probably be the Spanish Peso and the Australian Dashi, just because I prefer those voices for them. Peso's voice just sounds more natural to me in the US version (probably because that's the one I'm used to) and Dashi's voice in the original fits her better (and I'm also a sucker for Australian accents-)

[blubushie]

any bush stories you’d be interested in sharing?? Definitely not taking notes and using those said notes to help me better write sniper cough cough,, also genuinely interested!! Grew up in north-west wilderness and whatnot, would love to hear about what it’s like down in Australia!

I am genuinely honoured you're using me as inspiration! Here's some stories from Australia:

I've seen UFOs and other unexplainable lights multiple times.

Once when I was out in the bush I had a yahoo (basically Australian sasquatch) walk up to my camp. Scared me shitless, I screamed like a little girl, and then I threw the yam I was eating at him. He picked it up and walked off back into the bush. That happened almost three years ago and I'm not sure if my meat had gone bad and I was hallucinating but I told my Aboriginal mate about it and he just said I'm lucky the fucker didn't eat me because "They don't care for white fellas much."

Heard singing voices in an abandoned gold mine I was exploring like a dumb cunt. I ran out screaming when I heard a loud bang deeper in the mine.

Saw a bloke watching me from a window at Gwalia, which is an abandoned town with no residents (they all moved to nearby Leonora when the gold mine in Gwalia ran dry). I entered the home and no one was in there. Scared me shitless.

Once while camping near Uluru I had a young Aboriginal bloke (couldn't have been older than 16) walk up to me wearing nothing but a fucking loincloth in 4c weather. Keep in mind Uluru is fucking flat, there's no way this kid could have snuck up on me from 5 clicks away without me seeing him in the middle of the fucking night. He said he was from Anapala in South Aus (it hasn't been called Anapala since the 1970s when it was renamed Pukatja) and he had a Pitjantjatjara accent. He also had ritual scars on his arms which suggested he was a little older than he said he was. He said he hadn't eaten in a few days so I shared my rabbit with him. I let him sleep in my swag and when I woke up in the morning he was gone. No tracks, nothing. Disappeared into thin air. Absolutely convinced I met a fucking ghost.

Thought I was going to be eaten by a dropbear once. It was a flying fox. Still feel like an idiot for that one.

Found the tracks of a large cat (puma-sized, as wide as my palm) alongside a streambed in the Blue Mountains west of Sydney. They were fresh tracks since it rained a day earlier. I felt like I was being watched and got the fuck out of there.

I was chased 10km through Boulia by the Min Min Lights. I'm driving down the highway and there's these fucking lights behind me, I floor it because I think it's the cops, they keep following, Matilda's engine starts smoking so I pull over because I'm not going to blow my van's engine. Finally I pull over and the lights are just hovering about three metres off the ground, these fiery orbs. Scared me half to death and I got back in Matilda and kept driving. Eventually the lights just fizzled out and disappeared. I've only been back to Boulia once and I was on guard the entire time.

Once was surrounded by a pack of dingos (4-5 individuals) for an entire night. I had my rifle across my lap and my knife ready. Didn't get a wink of sleep. It's terrifying when you're the prey for once.

Had to bandage my arm with the rag I use for wiping down my rifle because a blackheaded python slithered into my engine in WA and snapped onto my arm when I tried lugging it out in the morning. I've since gotten a new rag for the rifle.

Woke up one morning to Misty going off like a frog in a sock. Turns out I had a bandy-bandy in me fucking swag. That was fun trying to get it out (bandy-bandys are elapids related to cobras, but their small fangs and low venom output means they're one of Australia's least deadly venomous snakes).

Stepped on an eastern brown while hunting in QLD. Leather boots saved me life. The fact I don't take Misty with me when I hunt saved hers.

Back in January I fell out of a tree while hunting, landing on my back, and pissed blood for a week. Figured I'd either be fine or lose a kidney. Honestly I've fallen out of trees more times than I can count. Eucalyptus doesn't hold weight very well.

Two years or so ago I was bitten by a metre-long saltwater crocodile while helping biologists do a survey in Kakadu. I've still got the scars on my left arm from where the cunt grabbed me. Little shit.

Got me foot stomped by a cow while helping a mate muster cattle.

Watched Polly up in Daly Waters kick a cunt once during a pub brawl that made it outside.

Had my hat chewed on by Blackface at that same pub. The hat escaped unscathed.

Once got into a tug-a-war over a pig I shot with a fucking perentie. Took me twenty minutes to trek up to where the pig was and when I got there the fucking perentie had its head buried up to its shoulders in the bloody carcass. The perentie didn't bite me but Lord knows it tried.

Burned my chest when a spent casing ejected and landed in my fucking shirt. I'm left-handed and shoot left-handed. My rifle is impossible to find with a left-handed bolt, so the casings eject across my body instead of away from me, and it landed in my shirt. I now wear undershirts when I work because that shit hurt. Thankfully it didn't leave a scar.

Nicked my wrist on the broadhead of an arrow once by accident.

Before I got my boots I had a piece of razor wire wedge itself into my shoe and slit my ankle open. It got infected, of course. Cleaned it with whisky and spent the next five minutes swearing a blue streak. It healed but I've got a scar.

Stung by a jellyfish on my hand when I was a kid. Did it again on my foot a few years ago. Luckily no scars, just felt like a massive bee sting.

Every time I hit a bump while driving I have some dust come down from the roof from a few years ago when I accidentally left a window cracked during a dust storm.

Was in WA when it snowed in 2021 during the night. Went to bed freezing and woke up to a white blanket.

Was tackled by a kangaroo while hunting once.

Got my name because I was a dumb cunt and went bushwalking and didn't bring enough water. I was dying of dehydration and living off nothing but bugs and my own piss for two days. Finally found a pond of the clearest water you'd ever see. Drank probably 3 litres, refilled my canteens. Had complete ego death and I walked out of the bush as a new person with a new name.

Once in the middle of the night up in Kakadu I was just sitting at my campfire as blokes do, it was foggy as shit, and out of the fog walks the most beautiful horse I've ever seen. This bastard was snow white with the prettiest brown eyes. He walks up to my fire, snorts, sniffs around at my tuckerbag, looks at me, and then just walks off back into the fog. Brumbies are fucking skittish so it was a magical moment.

Had a kookaburra steal a piece of jerky right out of my hand.

Dingos. So many dingos. Once shot a dingo in NSW—terrible shot on my part, I still feel terrible for it. The wind was higher than I would've liked and the bullet ended up too far back so it wasn't an immediate kill. His mates came over to check out the row and I watched through my scope as they started ripping him apart. I put another bullet in him because nothing deserves that. The second shot didn't miss.

Been in more pubfights than I can count. I don't start them.

Stepped on a kangaroo eyeball once by accident. Scrub your boots when you're done hunting because nothing will get the smell of summer-baked kangaroo brains out of your house.

Once killed two roos with one bullet.

CALIFORNIA: When I was eight years old my dad and I were hunting in NorCal and it'd rained the night before. We came across a streambed (keep in mind this was -2c weather) with footprints in it. These footprints were massive, about 40cm from heel to toe and wide as sin. They were accompanied by much smaller footprints about half that length. There's no way in hell someone with 40cm feet would be out there in -6c weather WITH A CHILD walking BAREFOOT through freezing water 8km from the nearest road between the time it rained (which would've washed away any prints) and sunrise. Dad and I found them at sunrise. Both of us are convinced we found fucking bigfoot footprints.

CALIFORNIA: Was stalked by a mountain lion for 1.5km.

[ineffablelunatics]

Crowley and the Australian Red-Bellied Black Snake

Crowley’s snake form is based off the Australian Red Bellied Black Snake. They are frequently scene on the East Coast of Australian.

Here’s some interesting facts about this snake that sound a lot like Crowley in his human form.

(There’s a link below with more facts after the list. There’s a picture of a snake so just wanted to warn in case you didn’t want to see that)

-The snake will freeze upon detection and will stay very still. Usually people wont even notice it until they are right up on it. If a person gets close enough, its first instinct is to immediately flee. The snake’s first instinct in signs of trouble is too flee.

-If the person is blocking their retreat, they will rear up their head with their fore body parallel but off the ground, spread its neck and hiss loudly. Will make MOCK strikes with a closed mouth. (Sounds very similar to someone sliding up the wall without all the striking and hissing). Further action to bother the snake will cause it to lash out and usually clumsily(sounds familiar) bite the threat.

-Can be poisoned by Cane Toads(looking at you, Hastur), but frogs are its main food supply

Crowley’s first instinct in signs of trouble is too flee. Even as a snake, his last resort is too bite(kill). He’s feels threatened by Hastur on some level. They’re not that venomous. They are, but there’s no reported deaths from them. There’s probably more facts and things I’ve missed, but this felt like the biggest things

[piasgermany]

[Album] Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds kündigen neues Album "Wild God" an!

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds kündigen ihr neues Album "Wild God" an! Der erste Vorgeschmack auf das am 30. August über Play It Again Sam erscheinende 18. Studioalbum ist der Titelsong, der bereits jetzt zu hören ist.

Die 1983 gegründete Band, die bereits zahlreiche Klassiker und zuletzt das Album "Ghosteen" (2019) veröffentlicht hat, besteht neben dem australischen Frontsänger seit knapp 30 Jahren aus Warren Ellis (Violine, Bouzouki, Mandoline), Thomas Wydler (Schlagzeug), Martyn Casey (Bass) und Jim Sclavunos (Schlagzeug, Perkussion, Gesang, Orgel), 2016 kam noch George Vjestica (Gitarre) hinzu. Ende des letzten Jahres hatte Cave gemeinsam mit Warren Ellis das Live-Album "Australian Carnage – Nick Cave and Warren Ellis Live At The Sydney Opera House" released. Seit ihrer Gründung vor über 40 Jahren haben Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds es geschafft, ihren Sound immer wieder neu zu erfinden. Das kommende Album ist keine Ausnahme von dieser kreativen Entwicklung der Band, die auf den zehn Songs den düsteren Vorhang ein wenig zurückzieht und etwas Licht hereinlässt.

Auf den neuen Tracks von "Wild God" bewegt sich das Kollektiv zwischen Konvention, Experimenten, Anspannung und Entspannung und nimmt dabei auch Abzweigungen und Umwege in Kauf, die die Bilder und Emotionen in Caves Erzählungen noch verstärken. So gibt es Momente, die an die Vergangenheit der Bad Seeds erinnern, die aber nur flüchtig aufleuchten und eher dazu dienen, den Fortschritt der Band zu untermauern. “I hope the album has the effect on listeners that it’s had on me”, erzählt Cave. “It bursts out of the speaker, and I get swept up with it. It’s a complicated record, but it’s also deeply and joyously infectious. There is never a masterplan when we make a record. The records rather reflect back the emotional state of the writers and musicians who played them. Listening to this, I don’t know, it seems we’re happy.”

Produziert von Cave und Warren Ellis und gemischt von David Fridmann, begann der Frontmann Anfang 2023 mit dem Schreiben des Albums. Bei Sessions im Miraval in der französischen Provence und in London brachten die Bad Seeds dann noch eigene Elemente ein, mit zusätzlichen Gastauftritten von Colin Greenwood (Bass) und Luis Almau (Akustikgitarre). “Wild God…there’s no fucking around with this record”, so Cave. “When it hits, it hits. It lifts you. It moves you. I love that about it.”

Als einer der ersten Songs, die Cave für das Album schrieb, ist der jetzt schon geteilte Titeltrack ein Stück, das erneut das besondere Storytelling des Australiers präsentiert und sich nicht nur musikalisch immer weiter aufbaut und schließlich entlädt: „And the people on the ground cried when does it end? / The wild god says well it depends, but mostly never ends”. „When I hear ‘Wild God’ or ‘Frogs’ or ‘Conversion’ – songs on the album that have these big climactic moments – it puts a big fucking smile on my face”, ergänzt Cave über die Single. Dem können wir uns nur anschliessen!

Tracklist "Wild God": 01. Song of the Lake 02. Wild God 03. Frogs 04. Joy 05. Final Rescue Attempt 06. Conversion 07. Cinnamon Horses 08. Long Dark Night 09. O Wow O Wow (How Wonderful She Is) 10. As the Waters Cover the Sea

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[snakemanaustralia]

Two mating Geocrinia otwaysensis Hoser, 2020, a spectacular recently discovered species of frog from south-west Victoria, Australia. It has got to be the sexiest frog ever discovered in the State of Victoria and is well and truly endemic, being confined to the Otways in south-west Victoria.  They are out and about and breeding this week (mid March 2023). Geocrinia otwaysensis was only discovered and formally named by Snakeman Raymond Hoser in 2020 in one of the big frog monographs of the Lockdown period. This taxon was previously treated as a population of the well known Geocrinia victoriana or similarly well-known Geocrinia laevis. In fact it is neither! Geocrinia otwaysensis is separated from both other species by call, colouration in the groin (or lack of it in terms of distinctive black bordering and marbling) and even different tadpoles. Speaking of frogs in the greater Geocrinia group .... PS Anstisia Webster and Bool, 2022 is an illegally coined junior synonym of Wellingtondella Hoser, 2020. Get the full text of the definitive paper: Hoser, R. T. 2020. 3 new tribes, 3 new subtribes, 5 new genera, 3 new subgenera, 39 new species and 11 new subspecies of mainly small ground-dwelling frogs from Australia. Australasian Journal of Herpetology ® Issues 50-51, published 10 October 2020, pages 1-128. as pdf at http://www.smuggled.com/AJH-I50-Split.htm Raymond Hoser is Australia's foremost frog expert, having discovered and named more Australian species and genera of frog than anyone else ever.  As there are very few frog species left to be discovered in Australia, no one will ever name more frog species in Australia than Raymond Hoser.

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[raethereptile]

And here we have it folks! The 139 competitors for the Tumblr Sexyman: Animal Edition title!

Quater finalists will be broken down into species (or more specific) competitors, but honestly I couldn't deal with that at this stage

Until then!

The first vote will be coming up very soon!

:keep reading:

Box jellyfish

Butterfly rays

Glass frogs

Quoll

Coral snakes

Planigale

Emu

Octocoral

Hog nose snakes

Chimaera

Kakapo

Shovel nose frogs

Narrow-mouthed frogs

Mock vipers

Bandicoots

Wombats

Hydra

Leaping frogs

Lobster

Eagle rays

Burrowing snakes

Kiwi

Koala

Boas

Saddleback toads

Pythons

Night snakes

Pipe snakes

Sea snakes

Marsupial shrew

Short-legged toads

Wallabies

Taipan

Possums

Blind snakes

True jellyfish

Tukeit Hill frogs

Dogfish

Sawsharks

Brown snakes

Panrays

Penguins

Mulgara

True Crabs

Isopods

Mantella

Tree frogs

Ningaui

Bullheaded sharks

Krait snakes

Kangaroos

Dunnart

Slug snakes

Rain frogs

Marsupial moles

Shield-tailed snakes

Seychelles frogs

Dancing frogs

Flightless teals and steamerducks

Octopus

Angel sharks

Potoroos

Mamba

Crayfish

True frogs

Carpet sharks

Whipsnakes

Bilbies

Cobra

Vipers

Poison dart frogs

Forked-tongue frogs

Krill et al.

Skates

Vampire squid

Prawns

Dibbler

Night frogs

Squid

Stalked jellyfish

Nautilus and Allonatilus

Parasite cnidaria

Tropical frogs

Marsupial frogs

Wart snake

False antechinus

Ostrich

Hexacoral

Bush frogs

Burrowing toads

Comb jellies

Centipede eater snakes

Odd-scaled snakes

Cassowary

Flightless cormorant

Guitarfishes

True Shrimp

Rat-kangaroos

Numbat

Phascogale

Parsley frogs

Horned tree frogs

Parasitic crustations

False shrimp

Painted frogs

Mackerel sharks

Flaxen crabs

Spadefoot toads

Antechinus

Australian ground frogs

Kaluta

True toads

Electric rays

Fire belly toads

Barnacles

Screeching frogs

Tailed frogs

Anemones

Tasmanian devil

Opossums

Darwin’s frogs

Rhea

Adders

Toungless clawed frogs

Primitive frogs

Grebes

Dasyure

Moss frogs

Flightless rails and family

Sawfishes

Cuttlefish

Thornbacks

Kultarr

Ground sharks

Stingrays

Kowari

Frilled cow sharks

Sunbeam snakes

Sand snakes

[itsfrogtober]

frog of the day :)

limnodynastes dorsalis, Common names: Western banjo frog, western banjo bullfrog, western sand frog, pobblebonk frog

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Habitat: In bodies of water in arid areas

Found in: Australia 

Fun fact(s): They get the “banjo frog” name from the fact that their call sounds a lot like a banjo - [video of one calling]. There are other banjo frogs as well!

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[uncharismatic-fauna]

Commune with the Common Eastern Froglet

The common eastern froglet (Crinia signifera) is, as its name suggest, a widely encountered species of frog in eastern Australia, as well as the island of Tasmania. This species can be found in many habitats, including deciduous eucalyptus forests, wetlands, and agricultural and urban ponds and dams. During the dry season, froglets will also shelter under logs or leaf litter to prevent desiccation.

C. signifera is one of the smallest species of frog, reaching only 3 cm (1.2 in) in length. Most individuals are brown, but specific markings can vary widely from region to region; some have dark stripes while others take on a more mottled appearance, though generally the belly is lighter than the back and head. Because this species is largely terrestrial, they lack webbing on their toes.

Like most frogs, the common eastern froglet consumes primarily insects, especially mosqitoes, cockroaches, flies, and small spiders. In turn, the species is food for a wide variety of predators including larger frogs, fish, birds, and small rodents. Because C. signifera is active all year round, its distinctive cricket-like "Crick crick" call can be heard in every season, typically as males attempt to attract a mate, though their coloration and small size makes them difficult to find.

Under ideal conditions, C. signifera mates througout the year. Once a male has attracted a female, typically by being the loudest male in an area, he will climb on top of an inseminate her in a common position known as amplexus. Afterwards, the female will lay upwards of 200 eggs attatched to a leaf or stick at the water's surface level. Though these eggs are a popular snack for predators, it only takes about 10 days for them to hatch; afterwards, hundreds of tadpoles will occupy the water for anywhere from 6 weeks to 3 months. Fully mature adults leave the water to find food and mates, but will often stay close to their original breeding ground.

Conservation status: The IUCN considers the common eastern froglet to be of Least Concern. Though the species is threatened by habitat loss, it is remarkably resilient to the chytrid fungus which has devestated so many other Anuran species.

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[uncharismatic-fauna]

Fun fact: As the dry season removes water from the top layer of soil, the northern sandhill frog will burrow deeper to retain moisture, and can dig as deep as 80cm down.

today’s funky frog of the day is: arenophryne rotunda! commonly known as the northern sandhill frog, they are found in a small region of the western australian coast. it is a burrowing frog that digs forwards instead of backwards, unlike most frogs. also unlike most most frogs, they have no tadpole stage and instead hatch as small but fully-developed frogs.

[animalids]

Tortoise frog (Myobatrachus gouldi)

Photo by Evan Pickett

[fatehbaz]

just a heads-up—looks like that singing frog in the video you reblogged is a crucifix frog (Notaden bennettii), which isn’t a narrowmouthed toad (Microhylidae) as tagged but rather a member of the Australia+New Guinea-endemic family Limnodynastidae (aka Australian ground frogs (in part) or foam-nesting ground frogs)

Thank you. Really appreciate that you took the time to send this message. Sorry for the misdirection. The creature in the video is indeed Notaden bennettii. (Dryland frog whose habits remind me of beloved spadefoot toads of North America. Ought to have known: One memorable field guide that I had as a child described how the endemic frogs of Australian/Oceanian deserved notoriety alongside the more-famous endemic marsupials, and as examples the book referred to and included illustrations/photos of the “most amazing” which included the gastric brooding frog, marsupial frog, and the crucifix frog.) Went and looked up the source of the video. It comes from FrogID Australia’s social media, here: