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was thought to be extinct in some countries By Danna Staaf The horned marsupial frog, which carries its eggs in a pouch on its back, lives in the canopy of tropical rainforests. Javier Aznar ...
Once the deed is done, so to speak, female glass frogs leave their new eggs with their male partners. The males clutch the eggs for days on top of a leaf until the young reach the aquatic larvae ...
I never knew that frogs actually mated. I knew that they practiced "amplexus," in which the male hangs on to the female for dear life until such time as she decides to lay her eggs. He then ...
She pulls on a broad green leaf still attached to a branch and points out a shiny clutch of jellylike eggs. “These guys are hatchable,” she says. Red-eyed tree frogs, Agalychnis callidryas ...
Frogs mate in a position called amplexus, with the smaller male clasping the female from behind in a ride that can last two days or more. As she lays eggs, he expels sperm to fertilize them.
Spherical egg masses of up to 250 eggs are attached to the stems of living or dead vegetation just below the water surface. LIFE CYCLE: Relict leopard frogs spend their entire lives in close proximity ...