#I can Callulina and baby you can call me Al

[markscherz]

Do you have a favourite rain toad? I love them. They're so round and look grumpy even though they aren't.

Did you know that there are arboreal rainfrogs‽

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Meet the genus Callulina, from the rainforests of Tanzania and Kenya

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Who said you had to be lithe to take to the trees?

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You may not like it, but this is what Peak Performance looks like.

#frog #frogs #animal #animals #rainfrog #rain frog #herpetology #this is what peak performance looks like #could these be the roundest arboreal frogs? #I think it is not unlikely #Certainly an interesting evolutionary choice #turns out you can indeed get you a guy who can do both #Callulina #I can Callulina and baby you can call me Al #on this blog we use 'toad' exclusively to refer to members of the family Bufonidae #bufonids are true toads #what really blew my mind just now is that one species of Callulina (C. meteora) #is pretty clearly a mimic of an arboreal toad (Nectophrynoides viviparus) #which is awesome #because N. viviparus is probably pretty toxic #but I do not know if Callulina are toxic #so I am very curious if the mimicry is Müllerian or Batesian