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  2. Wallace's flying frog - Wikipedia

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    Illustration from Wallace's 1869 The Malay Archipelago by J. G. Keulemans A Wallace's flying frog in its natural habitat. This frog is quite photogenic, due to its large size, brilliant colors, and interesting behavior. [3] With a body length of about 80–100 mm (males are smaller than females), it is one of the largest species of Rhacophorus.

  3. Flying frog - Wikipedia

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    Wallace's flying frog (Rhacophorus nigropalmatus) A flying frog (also called a gliding frog) is a frog that has the ability to achieve gliding flight. This means it can descend at an angle less than 45° relative to the horizontal. Other nonflying arboreal frogs can also descend, but only at angles greater than 45°, which is referred to as ...

  4. File:Rhacophorus nigropalmatus.jpg - Wikipedia

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  5. Portal:Amphibians/Selected picture - Wikipedia

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    Wallace's flying frog (Rhacophorus nigropalmatus) is a moss frog found in tropical southeastern Asia. It is named after the British naturalist Alfred R. Wallace, who collected the first known specimen of the species. It lives almost exclusively in trees, and when threatened, or in search of prey, will leap from a branch and splay its four ...

  6. Rhacophoridae - Wikipedia

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    Like other arboreal frogs, they have toe discs, and those of the genus Chiromantis have two opposable fingers on each hand. This family also contains the Old World flying frogs, including Wallace's flying frog (Rhacophorus nigropalmatus). These frogs have extensive webbing between their fore and hind limbs, allowing them to glide through the ...

  7. Rhacophorus - Wikipedia

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    These frogs have long toes with strong webbing between them, enabling the animals to jump from tree to tree, using the webbing to control a gliding descent, a form of arboreal locomotion known as parachuting. [2] This behavioral adaptation is the source of their common name, "flying frogs".

  8. The Malay Archipelago - Wikipedia

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    The flying frog of Borneo . Robin McKie, in The Observer, [22] writes that the common view of Wallace "as a clever, decent cove who knew his place" as second fiddle to Charles Darwin is rather lopsided. Wallace, he writes, is "capable of great insights" in the Malay Archipelago. Travelling over 14,000 miles and collecting 125,000 specimens, he ...

  9. Flying and gliding animals - Wikipedia

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    The smallest flying vertebrates are the bee hummingbird and the bumblebee bat, both of which may weigh less than 2 grams (0.071 oz). They are thought to represent the lower size limit for endotherm flight. [citation needed] The smallest flying invertebrate is a fairyfly wasp species, Kikiki huna, at 0.15 mm (0.0059 in) (150 μm). [23] Fastest.