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Clockwise from top left: blue cranes, sandhill cranes, grey crowned cranes, and red-crowned cranes Cranes are tall wading birds in the family Gruidae. Cranes are found on every continent except for South America and Antarctica and inhabit a variety of open habitats, although most species prefer to live near water. [ 1 ]
It is ordinarily carnivorous, feeding mostly on insects and like-sized animals such as rodents, and is known to cannibalize other frogs. Large individuals have bite forces comparable to those of mammalian predators. [3] Although it is capable of eating animals almost half its size, Cranwell's horned frog sometimes eat things larger than itself.
[citation needed] They eat a range of items from small rodents, eggs of birds, fish, amphibians, and insects to grain and berries. Cranes construct platform nests in shallow water, and typically lay a clutch of two eggs at a time. Both parents help to rear the young, which remain with them until the next breeding season. [3]
More recent DNA studies have confirmed a close relationship with particularly the cranes, [9] with the limpkin remaining as a family close to the cranes and the two being sister taxa to the trumpeters. [10] Although the limpkin is the only extant species in the family today, several fossils of extinct Aramidae are known from across the Americas.
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The crab-eating frog (Fejervarya cancrivora) is a frog native to south-eastern Asia including Taiwan, [2] China, Sumatra in Indonesia, [3] the Philippines and more rarely as far west as Orissa in India. [4] It has also been introduced to Guam, most likely from Taiwan. [5]
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