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A female Cyphotilapia frontosa mouthbrooding fry which can be seen looking out from her mouth. Mouthbrooding, also known as oral incubation and buccal incubation, is the care given by some groups of animals to their offspring by holding them in the mouth of the parent for extended periods of time.
Ceratophrys is a genus of frogs in the family Ceratophryidae. They are also known as South American horned frogs as well as Pacman frogs due to their characteristic round shape and large mouth, reminiscent of the video game character Pac-Man.
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.
The frog has been found to defecate viable seeds and likely helps in the spread of the plants it consumes. [ 3 ] The plants Erythroxylum ovalifolium and Maytenus obtusifolia both contain toxic alkaloids and terpenes , [ 7 ] [ 8 ] and Xenohyla truncata has been found to excrete from its skin the chemical compound N-phenyl-acetamide , which is ...
The granular poison frog (Oophaga granulifera) is typical of a number of tree frogs in the poison dart frog family Dendrobatidae. Its eggs are laid on the forest floor and when they hatch, the tadpoles are carried one by one on the back of an adult to a suitable water-filled crevice such as the axil of a leaf or the rosette of a bromeliad .
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