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Common frog (Rana temporaria) tadpole. A tadpole or polliwog (also spelled pollywog) is the larval stage in the biological life cycle of an amphibian.Most tadpoles are fully aquatic, though some species of amphibians have tadpoles that are terrestrial.
These are frog eggs. This is how we're used to frogs having babies. They lay eggs, those eggs hatch into tadpoles ... and you learned the rest in science class. However, a newly discovered species ...
The example brought up by Ferrari and Chivers 2008, is how P. maculata tadpoles learn to avoid salamanders from tadpoles that have experience with the predator. The paper discusses how if a new predator is added to the environment, there is a learning curve at how long it takes the tadpoles to learn to avoid the new predator. [ 6 ]
Most species (e.g. Blyth's river frog L. blythii or the fanged river frog L. macrodon) develop normally, with free-swimming tadpoles that eat food. [5] The tadpoles of the corrugated frog (L. laticeps) are free-swimming but endotrophic, meaning they do not eat but live on stored yolk until metamorphosis into frogs. [5]
During the final stages of transformation when the tadpoles have four limbs and a tail, they stop feeding for a short time while their mouths widen and their digestive systems adjust from herbivorous to carnivorous. Pacific tree frogs mature quickly, and usually mate the season after metamorphosis. They can live up to eight years in captivity.
The loss of some tadpoles in the metamorphosis from tadpole to frog is a unique feature of R. darwinii. This observation is likely explained by these hypotheses: The tadpoles that did not survive were converted into nutrition for the foster male and he digested them. [13] The tadpoles died in the vocal sac of the foster male.
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The tadpoles are capable of developing to froglets within a couple of weeks. This short larval period allows spadefoots to utilize water sources that other amphibians cannot. This short larval period allows spadefoots to utilize water sources that other amphibians cannot.