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Phyllomedusa bicolor, the giant leaf frog, bicolor tree-frog, giant monkey frog, [2] or waxy-monkey treefrog, [3] is a species of leaf frog.It can be found in the Amazon basin of Brazil, Colombia (), Bolivia, and Peru, and can also be found in the Guianan Region of Venezuela and the Guianas, and in Cerrado of the state of Maranhão in Brazil.
[32] [14] In March 2019, kambo practitioner Natasha Lechner suffered a cardiac arrest and died while receiving kambo. [17] [33] [7] In April 2019, a homicide investigation was opened into the death by "severe cerebral edema" of a young person who had taken kambo toxins in Chile; the import of the frog and its secretions is illegal in Chile.
Some indigenous groups from South America use the secretions of Phyllomedusa bicolor, the giant leaf frog, in shamanic hunting practices and as a traditional medicine ritual known as Kambo cleanse. The substance intoxicates those who ingest it, and hunters believe it causes them to temporarily improve their sensorial capacities.
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The family Mantellidae is composed of three extremely diverse groups of frogs, across three subfamilies: the Mantellinae (Laurent, 1946) are typically terrestrial or semi-aquatic frogs, the Laliostominae (Vences & Glaw, 2001) are terrestrial, fairly large frogs, and the Boophinae (Vences & Glaw, 2001) are arboreal tree frogs, sharing far more physical and behavioral characteristics with true ...
The Guinness Book of World Records lists the frog's body weight at 10 milligrams (0.00035 oz), [13] while measurements of Schindleria brevipinguis show them to weigh less than 2 milligrams (7.1 × 10 −5 oz), with one adult specimen weighing just 0.7 milligrams. [14] The frog lives on land and its life cycle does not include a tadpole stage. [11]
They can get three times the size of our next largest native tree frog, which is the barking tree frog.” A Cuban tree frog explored in Lake Worth, Florida in 2010. According to the University of ...
Limnodynastes dumerilii is a frog species from the family Limnodynastidae. [2] The informal names for the species and its subspecies include eastern or southern banjo frog, and bull frog. [3] [4] The frog is also called the pobblebonk after its distinctive "bonk" call, which is likened to a banjo string being plucked.