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In the wild, Andrew feeds on fish, sponges, small crustaceans, nematode worms and protozoans.
Benny's diet is very specialized, consisting mainly of the interior of Ramy nuts, nectar from the Traveller's Palm tree, some fungi and insect grubs. He is also known to raid coconut plantations, and has been seen eating lychees and mangoes, which are also plantation crops.
Category: toad
In the 1930s, Australian ecologists shortsightedly introduced the Cane Toad, a species indigenous to South America, to their isolated continent to eat agricultural pests. This famously proved to be a complete disaster with the toxic toads running rampant and native...
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Category: new species
Keeping with Zooillogix's official policy, because the creatures are now known to Western science, now and only now can we all consider them to exist.
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Category: extinction
Animals that turned out not to be extinct or dead this week.
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Category: amphibian
Dogs lick toads to get high
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Category: amphibian
A study of rare African frogs has revealed a form of self-defense hitherto unbeknownst to the scientific world: claws of pure bone that burst through the frogs' skin. And it gets worse. When the frogs are threatened they need to first "actively break" their own bones in order to create these claws.
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Category: frog
Awesome footage of baby Surinam Toads emerging from Mama's back.
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Category: amphibian
Scientists in Madagascar recently discovered the remains of a giant prehistoric frog, a relative of today's horned toads, which blew away the previous record for the largest known frog.
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Category: endangered species
An initiative known as EDGE (Excited Dachshunds Grinding with the Elderly) has released its list of weird and critically dangered amphibians, hot on the heels of their steamy, after hours EDGE Mammals edition.
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Category: amphibian
Reported last month in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B, a fascinating fossil was discovered in the Saar-Nahe Basin of Southwestern Germany (sounds more like somewhere in Middle-earth than Bavaria to us, but go figure). The fossil(s?) comprises...
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Category: salamander
We get a lot of requests to feature friends pets on Zooillogix. Some people just don't seem to get the fact that their golden retriever does not belong on a site devoted to bizarre zoology (you know who you are...
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