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The African bullfrog is a voracious carnivore, eating insects and other invertebrates, small rodents, reptiles, small birds, fish, and other amphibians that can fit in their mouths. [5] [9] [10] It is also a cannibalistic species—the male African bullfrog is known for occasionally eating the tadpoles he guards, [11] and juveniles also eat ...
Pyxicephalus (πυξίς, pyxis = "(round) box," κεφαλή, kephalē = "head") is a genus of true frogs from Sub-Saharan Africa, commonly referred to as African bull frogs or bull frogs. [1] They are very large ( P. adspersus ) to large (remaining species) frogs, with females significantly smaller than males. [ 2 ]
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The male frogs “stay with their tadpoles and defend them against any intruders. They will jump at an elephant or any other (animal).” The new species “eats small birds, rodents, snakes and ...
The edible bullfrog is a large bodied frog in which the males typically reach 8.3–12 cm (3.3–4.7 in) in snout–to–vent length and the females 8.5–11 cm (3.3–4.3 in). [3] Exceptionally large males may even reach 13.8 cm (5.4 in), although the species does not approach the sizes attained by the related African bullfrog (P. adspersus). [4]
The crowned bullfrog (Hoplobatrachus occipitalis) is a species of frog in the family Dicroglossidae.It is found in the Sub-Saharan Africa (Algeria, Angola, Benin ...
The contrast, Shankar says, is at the core of the Bullfrog character. At first glance, he’s a cute little frog playing dress-up in Assassin’s clothes, but if you dig a little deeper, you see a ...
The list follows the South African National Bioinformatics Institute listing. Amphibians are ectothermic , anamniotic , four-limbed vertebrate animals that constitute the class Amphibia . In its broadest sense, it is a paraphyletic group encompassing all tetrapods excluding the amniotes (tetrapods with an amniotic membrane , such as modern ...