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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.

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Our New Meat Ant Overlords...

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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10 New Amphibians Discovered

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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Not Dead Animals - Weekly Recap

Category: extinction

Animals that turned out not to be extinct or dead this week.

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Lady, the Toad Sucking Cocker Spaniel

Category: amphibian

Dogs lick toads to get high

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African Frogs Break Own Bones to Form Claws

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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Surinam Toads Perfect Birthing Method to Destroy Humanity

Category: frog

Awesome footage of baby Surinam Toads emerging from Mama's back.

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Enormous 'Devil Toad' Remains Discovered in Madagascar

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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Weird Amphibians Make Some Sort of Conservation List

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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It's a Fish-Eat-Giant Salamander-Eat-Shark World

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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Big Ben the Axolotl

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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