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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: frog
This video, which I flat out stole from the unparalleled A Blog Around the Clock, is fascinating. This reminds me of sonograms of my baby brother. Did I mention that I got this video from A Blog Around the Clock,...
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Category: extinction
Animals that turned out not to be extinct or dead this week.
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Category: cuckoo
Discovery.com recently reported two instances of animals manipulating sound to master their environments.
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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: frog
Deep in the heart of the jungles of Borneo a new frog has been found that is rocking the very foundations of frog biology the world over. Why? Because, for God's sake, it has no lungs. Instead, it gets all the oxygen it needs by absorbing it through its skin.
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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: frog
A consortium of zoos and aquariums, calling itself the "Amphibian Ark," has dubbed 2008 the "Year of the Frog." Amphibian Ark made this declaration in order to draw awareness to the mass extinction of amphibian species around the globe and to infuriate the Chinese, who already named the year after the rat "like 5000 years ago".
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Category: amphibian
Those crazy Japanese have done it again! By combining two types of recessive genes that cause frogs to be pale, they have created a frog with almost transparent skin. Unfortunately for the frogs, the advantages to testing on a see-through...
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Category: India
Hey there, ladies. I'm just a lonesome, evolutionary mishap who loves to party. The Purple frog or Nasikabatrachus sahyadrensis can be described as a "living fossil." These strange creatures split evolutionarily from other frogs nearly 150 million years ago giving...
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