𝑭𝒓𝒐𝒈 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑫𝒂𝒚! 🐸 African Clawed Frogs! African Clawed Frogs, like all their family, are toothless, tongueless, and totally aquatic! Using their sense of smell and touch, they swim and lunge after food - which, as scavengers, can be almost anything living, dying, dead, or decaying. They are originally from ponds and rivers in Sub-Saharan Africa, but they can be quite invasive in other regions due to their adaptability. These frogs will lay their eggs whenever and wherever the conditions allow them to, traveling to other sources of water during damp conditions and borrowing into the mud during dry patches. They are known to survive for 15 years in the wild and upwards of 25-30 in captivity, shedding their own skin and eating it every season. Females are much larger and rounder than the males, and both communicate in trills during the mating season. Both possess large claws on their back feet, giving them their descriptive name. Clawed Frogs are notably more cannabilistic than many other species. The tadpoles are filter feeders who consume plankton, and adult frogs do not shy away from eating these tadpoles. This system helps Clawed Frogs to survive in places where there are very little food sources.  Brought to you by Tod & Froggë: A Cozy RPG! Check out the Kickstarter to play your very own frog or toad today ✨💚🐸
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𝑭𝒓𝒐𝒈 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑫𝒂𝒚! 🐸 Common Midwife ToadThe most notable feature of the Midwife Toad (Alytes obstetricans) is no doubt its parental strategy. To reproduce, females lay eggs wrapped in sticky strands, which the male collects and wraps around his back legs. He can carry up to 3 clutches in this way (up to 150 eggs!), where he keeps them moist for 3-8 weeks. When the eggs are about to hatch, he releases them in some calm, shallow water, where they hatch into tadpoles. They will develop for several months, and may even overwinter as very large tadpoles! When feeling threatened, Alytes obstetricans inflates itself to look bigger, and may even rear on all limbs, raise its rear, lower its head, and close its eyes in a threatening posture. What a striking pose! They like to live in sunny areas within 1600ft of water, and are often found in hills, rocky areas, woods, parks, gardens, quarries, and cultivated land. It hides during the day and emerges at dusk, foraging during the night for invertebrates and carrion. In the winter it digs itself a burrow and hibernates until spring beckons with the return of warm temperatures.  If you like frogs, check out the Tod & Froggë Cozy RPG on Kickstarter today! 💚🐸
𝑭𝒓𝒐𝒈 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑫𝒂𝒚! 🐸 Tailed Frogs Aschaphus (a genus containing only two species, truei and montanus) is the only genus in a very primitive family of frogs. They’re known for the visible ‘tail’ in adulthood, making them a very unique frog. That ‘tail’, however, is only seen in male frogs, and is an extension of their cloaca. That’s right folks, these frogs have internal fertilization, making them quite unique amphibians! In addition, they retain extra vertebra as well as residual tail-wagging muscles, despite not having actual tails as mature adults. Ascaphids can’t vocalize - no cute frog peeping here - and are incredibly small, only 1"-2" as adults. They also secrete a series of antimicrobial peptides called ascaphins through their skin, which helps them fight bacteria such as E. coli, and shares minimal genetic characteristics with other frog peptides. Tailed frogs prefer cold, fast-moving streams with cobblestone bottoms, and are mostly aquatic. Their tadpoles take 1-4 years to metamorphose, and eat algae, desmids, and conifer pollen. They have a unique mouth sucker that lets them grab onto rocks, helping them stay secure in fast waters.  If you like frogs, check out the Tod & Froggë Cozy RPG on Kickstarter today! 💚🐸
𝑭𝒓𝒐𝒈 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑫𝒂𝒚! 🐸 Western Spadefoot Toad! Spea hammondii is an American Spadefoot Toad which lives in localized (but widespread) populations in grassland, scrub, chaparral, and occasional woodland environments across California and northern Mexico. They are nocturnal and prefer to be active during the wet season or days of especial humidity and moisture. Like many amphibians, they are facing large amounts of habitat loss due to human activity and development. The average livespan of Spea hammondii is about 12 years, though they reach maturity at 3. They lay their eggs in puddles, and it is a race for tadpoles to turn into frogs before the puddles dry up. The eggs can hatch after 15 hours, and the tadpoles develop into fully fledged toads in up to 13 days - one of the fastest metamorphosis of any frog!  If you like frogs, check out the Tod & Froggë Cozy RPG on Kickstarter today! 💚🐸
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