#Leptodactylus

[herpsandbirds]

Santa Fe White-lipped Frog (Leptodactylus laticeps), family Leptodactylidae, found in Argentina, Bolivia, and Paraguay

Poisonous.

Populations are decreasing due to habitat loss.

photograph by Reptiles4all

#leptodactylus #leptodactylidae #frog #amphibian #herpetology #south america #animals #nature

[et2ycpszo]

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[funkyfrogoftheday]

today's funky frog of the day: the white-lipped frog (Leptodactylus fragilis)!!!! they're otherwise known as the mexican or american white-lipped frog, as this is where they live! i quite enjoy their triangular heads.

photo by D. Gordon E. Robertson

#white lipped frog #Leptodactylus fragilis #i HAD to use this photo. just look at him #sillie…. #frog #frogblr #funky frog of the day

[demons-art-hell]

A little chicken for a friend on discord's birthday 🎉🎉

#demons art #traditional art #frog #giant ditch frog #mountain chicken #leptodactylus fallax

[vintervittrannerd]

Mountain chicken day!

It’s september 13th, which means it is Mountain chicken day, and in honor of that here are som fantastic mountain chickens and some fun facts:

Their latin/science name is Leptodactyllus fallax

they Big™, can weight up to 1 kg (!!). This is a mountain chicken with a small treefrog on its back for comparison 

They can eat snakes, spiders, other frogs and even bats! 

They’re very good parents that spend a lot of their time taking care of their children

They’re really really talkative and make lots of noises 

Enjoy Mountain chicken day! :D 

#frog #frogs #mountain chicken #leptodactylus fallax #i love these little guys #did research about them for almost a year #and it made me obsessed #so really if anyone wants to know anything about these frogs #i'm more then happy to tell you #i've probably read most science papers published on them since the 70's #mountain chicken frog day

[bulkbinbox]

um leptodactylus knudseni fotografado por joel sartore.

#joel sartore #leptodactylus knudseni

[leaf-thief]

male Pontastacus leptodactylus being clawed by a female conspecific

Druzhba Lake, Sofia, Bulgaria

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[imatmywormrightnow]

#me rn #mountain chicken #leptodactylus fallax

[the4chambersofmystery]

Paul Starosta - Corbis

#Leptodactylus laticeps #santa fe frog #Paul Starosta #corbis

[vintagewildlife]

Smoky jungle frog (Leptodactylus pentadactylus) By: Robert S. Simmons From: Living Amphibians of the World 1966

#smoky jungle frog #frog #amphibian #1966 #1960s #Robert S. Simmons #Living Amphibians of the World (1966)

[herpsandbirds]

Santa Fe White-lipped Frog (Leptodactylus laticeps), in defensive stance, family Leptodactylidae, found in Argentina, Bolivia, and Paraguay

Poisonous.

Populations are decreasing due to habitat loss.

photograph by Lucio Coronel

#leptodactylus #leptodactylidae #frog #amphibian #herpetology #aniamls #nature #south america

[frogayyyy]

@stormandsparks ok

i did some maths. proof is under the cut

frogzilla is a Leptodactylus fallax, commonly known as the mountain chicken or giant ditch frog, which is native to the caribbean islands and is critically endangered. (www.amphibiaweb.org)

total skin thickness: 397.81µm ± 12.07µm (0.39781mm) (from The Anatomical Record, Vol. 300, Issue 10)

typical adult size: 17-18cm (snout to vent) (from wikipedia)

enterprise size: 288.6m (length) (from cygnus-x1 blueprints)

if we use this image for scale.

using my ruler, the enterprise is 6.1cm long and frogzilla is 2.5cm snout to vent

6.1cm -> 288.6m

28860/6.1 = 4731.1475 (4d.p)

4731.1475 is our multiplying factor

2.5cm x 4731.1475= 11827.8688cm (4d.p)

length of frogzilla = 118.278688m

so taking this size and the average size of the mountain chicken from before (17.5cm)

11827.8688/17.5=675.878217 (6d.p)

this is our new multiplying factor

so to work out the thickness of frogzilla's skin:

0.39781mm x 675.878217 = 26.887111350477cm ≈ 26.9cm

so if we assume a hypospray takes one second to work for human skin which has an average thickness of around 1.3mm, it would take 20682.39334652077 seconds, or about 344 minutes, or almost 6 hours, for christine chapel's hypospray to work on frogzilla. in which time he would've sat on her.

(obviously i've rounded down a lot of these numbers and taken averages so there's a margin of error which i am absolutely not going to work out 👍)

(edit: i converted mm to cm wrong but i've fixed it now 😔😩)

#i'm unemployed and autistic #tell me why i worked harder on this than my final year project at uni

[albiraven]

Astacus leptodactylus

#cancer #astacus

[dalek-101]

Ok so today while I was off school I learned about the Mountain Chicken. I was infodumping on the groupchat but most of them completely ignored me. So today, if you choose to read on, you will also learn about the Mountain Chicken. To warn you I’m not a great researcher and some articles weren’t dated so some things may be slightly out of date and some of information slightly conflicts with each other but the story is pretty much the same so it doesn’t much matter

Starting off strong, the Mountain Chicken is not a chicken at all, but a frog. It looks like this;

Pretty cool, right?

Have some cool facts:

It’s other names are: the ‘Giant Ditch Frog’ and the ’Dominican White-Lipped Frog’.

The Latin name is ‘Leptodactylus Fallax’

It is native to Dominica and Montserrat in the Caribbean

They are carnivores and like to eat tarantulas, insects, spiders,snakes, land snails and pretty much whatever else they can find.

They can weigh over 900 grams, reach over 20 cm in length and live for up to 16 years.

It is one of the world’s largest frogs

Their name comes from their call sounding chicken-like and their size. And some people also say that they taste a bit like chicken.

It was also Dominica’s national dish

Using a trilling call. the male entices the female to a nesting burrow. They mate and a foam nest is produced where the female lays her eggs.

She lays infertile eggs for the tadpoles to feed on. When tadpoles metamorphise into juvenile frogs they leave the nest.

The males are very territorial and will wrestle to protect their territory

They have very powerful hind legs that enable them to be able to jump over 2 metres

Also check out this guys grinch feet

But the thing is, they are critically endangered.

There was roughly a 90% population decline after an epidemic of Chytridiomcyosis (Chytrid) in Dominica in 2002 and an epidemic in Montserrat in 2009. Batrochochytrium Dendrobatidis (BD) is a fungus that causes Chytridiomcyosis in amphibians. The arrival of BD to Dominica is what caused the population to decline. Bd is one of the most destructive animal epidemics. It is assumed that the international amphibian trade was a key factor in the spread as infected amphibians may have been transported around the world for consumption and laboratory use. BD was discovered in 98 but by then it had already spread. Within 18 months of the first confirmed case the Mountain Chicken Frog population had shrunk by about 85%. The disease attacks the outer layers of the amphibians skin which affects the ability to regulate water and electrolytes. It also seriously affects tadpoles mouthparts. Some of the symptoms are lethargy, redness of the belly and legs, and muscle tremors. Some amphibians are more resistant so act like vectors, transporting the disease. About 40% of amphibians are at risk of extinction.

After the population decline, there would be loads of dead frogs in streams. Forests used to be filled with the sound of their call but the forest have fallen silent from the loss. Before the epidemic, the population was in the tens of thousands. The disease affecte dover 90 other amphibian species and we could lose another 600 species in 20 years.

In 1997 there was a large volcanic eruption on Montserrat that affected lots of wildlife and their habitats. For instance some bats lost their fur and some fruit-eating bats lost their teeth due to the abrasive action of the ash that covered the fruit. Although the ash was rich in minerals and the forest that survived the explosion began to thrive. The silt from the explosion also almost completely killed the coral reefs but 20 years on the reefs have recovered. The pyroclastic flows and ash destroyed many populations and habitats so the species were restricted to a small place in the island’s Centre Hills Reserve.

However things are looking up due to conservation efforts. The Mountain Chicken Recovery Programme was set up; coordinated by the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust,in partnership with the government of Montserrat’s Department of Environment. When the disease hit Montserrat in 2009, 50 Mountain Chicken Frogs were rescued so as to establish a captive population. They established a bio-secure safety net population in 3 zoos across Europe. These have been successful so the frogs have bread many have been microchipped and released back into the wild. An antifungal drug, called Itraconzale, was established and it was used to treat amphibians in the wild in periods of risk. Frogs were washed for 5 minutes in a bag containg the antifungal bath; even if it didn’t actually stop them dying, it showed potential in extending the time till extinction so it was still a success. Over 20 frogs were reintroduced from ex situ breeding programs into a fenced-off area. The area was specifically tailored to the frogs needs with artificially heated ponds to escape the disease as Chrytid can’t survive over 30°C but the frogs can. There is also a live food facility where they breed crickets and cockroaches for the frogs to eat. There used to be one in Dominica too but the captive breeding programme was shut down after Hurricane Maria hit. In Dominica in 2008, the island’s population was assumed dead but in 2011 there were reports of the frog’s call being heard at night.The future is looking good for these guys

Anyway I hope you enjoyed this because I certainly did. I got genuinely quite sad while researching. Sorry if it’s a bit all over the place. I’m writing this from my incoherent messages to the group chat that only acted like they cared when I made a fuss about them not caring. Anyway I feel like I should mention that I did all this after watching a six of crows tiktok.

In case anyone can’t be bothered to read this; 

The Mountain Chicken Frog, that resides in Dominica and Montserrat, hit a hard population decline in outbreaks of the fungal disease Chytridiomcyosis. But conservation efforts mean things are looking up for them.

#frogs #mountain chicken frog #endangered #infodump #wth is lizzie doing #if i accidentally mispelled anything no i didnt

[badhouseplant]

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