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The findings also led to the rediscovery of three frog species which were unseen for over 75 years since their original descriptions by C. R. Narayan Rao in 1920 and 1937, respectively, after scientists "had completely ignored these animals, thinking they were lost." The Nyctibatrachus sanctipalustris (Coorg night frog) was unseen for 91 years ...
The frogs do not appear to care about living in groups and are not territorial. They have been seen living together with multiple frogs within one spider burrow. However, frogs do show high fidelity to the specific burrow which they originally selected and are never seen switching burrows.
The ground-dwellers are often found under leaf litter within forests, occasionally venturing out at night to hunt. The two main shapes for the microhylids are wide bodies and narrow mouths and normal frog proportions. Those with narrow mouths generally eat termites and ants, and the others have diets typical of most frogs. Egg-laying habits are ...
Frogs are more often heard than seen, and other frogs (and researchers) rely on their calls to identify them. Depending on the region that the frog lives in, certain times of the year are better for breeding than others, and frogs may live away from the best breeding grounds when it is not the species’ mating season.
Breviceps fuscus is a burrowing frog, and can be found in tunnels up to 150 mm deep or among vegetation up to about 30 cm above the ground, and it generally prefers to avoid water. [3] The frog generally spends most of its time underground as it does not require open water and is primarily nocturnal . [ 9 ]
Breviceps adspersus, also known as common rain frog, bushveld rain frog, and many other vernacular names, is a species of frog in the family Brevicipitidae. [2] It is found in Southern Africa , in Angola , Democratic Republic of the Congo , Namibia , Botswana , Zambia , Zimbabwe , South Africa , Eswatini , and Mozambique .
After a day of sufficient heavy rainfall, males emerge from their burrows at night to call while they migrate towards ponds. They will call at most for 1–3 nights. A female arrives and spawning lasts 20–34 minutes. [4] One to nine spawning bouts produce a clutch, which the couples spread by swimming around the pond where they mated.
Nyctibatrachus radcliffei, also known as Radcliffe's night frog [2] or the Thiashola wrinkled frog, [3] is a species of frog in the robust frog family Nyctibatrachidae. It was described in 2017, along with six other species in its genus , by the herpetologist Sonali Garg and her colleagues.