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Aulbath (a.k.a. Rikuo), a merman character from the video game series, Darkstalkers, by Capcom [28] Kuo-toa, "evil fish-men" from the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game [29] [30] The Murloc are a species of amphibious creatures which live in tribes in World of Warcraft [31] [32] [b] Neptuna, the mermaid-like boss in Croc: Legend of the Gobbos
The smallest amphibian (and vertebrate) in the world is a frog from New Guinea (Paedophryne amauensis) with a length of just 7.7 mm (0.30 in). The largest living amphibian is the 1.8 m (5 ft 11 in) South China giant salamander ( Andrias sligoi ), but this is dwarfed by prehistoric temnospondyls such as Mastodonsaurus which could reach up to 6 m ...
Culture consists of the social behaviour and norms in human societies transmitted through social learning. [1] Amphibians have for centuries appeared in culture . From the fire-dwelling salamander to the frogs (and occasionally toads ) of myth and fairytale and the rare use of a newt in literature, amphibians play the role of strange and ...
The list below largely follows Darrel Frost's Amphibian Species of the World (ASW), Version 5.5 (31 January 2011). Another classification, which largely follows Frost, but deviates from it in part is the one of AmphibiaWeb , which is run by the California Academy of Sciences and several of universities.
Lists of amphibians by region are lists of amphibians in a given continent, country or smaller region. Africa. Democratic Republic of the Congo; Ghana; Guinea-Bissau;
The world’s frogs, salamanders, newts and other amphibians remain in serious trouble. A new global assessment has found that 41% of amphibian species that scientists have studied are threatened ...
[44] [45] [46] Anthropomorphism, the attribution of human traits to non-human animals, is an important aspect of the way that humans relate to other animals such as pets. [ 47 ] [ 48 ] [ 49 ] There is a tension between the role of other animals as companions to humans, and their existence as individuals with rights of their own; ignoring those ...
Recent figures indicate that there are more than 1.4 billion insects for each human on the planet, [27] or roughly 10 19 (10 quintillion) individual living insects on the earth at any given time. [28] An article in The New York Times claimed that the world holds 300 pounds of insects for every pound of humans. [28]