painted frogs
midwife toads
alytidae latin

Painted frogs hide under leaf litter during the day hours and eat in the evening.

Non-poisonous snakes, soft and hard shell turtles, painted frogs and green pond frogs can also be seen in the park.

Like many other narrow-mouthed frogs, painted frogs have the ability to expand themselves when threatened, and to secrete toxic glue-like substances from their bodies as a defense mechanism.

At the bottom of the creek beds, there are native species: the Tyrrhenian painted frogs (a bariulata) - toads living up to 1900 m and Corsican brook salamanders (a Tarantella).

In parts of France midwife toads live in sand dunes by the sea.

Male midwife toads carry their eggs on their backs.

Like all midwife toads, the male of the species always carries the developing eggs during the months of May and June.

The Midwife toads (Alytes) is a genus of frogs.

Austrian biologist Paul Kammerer experimented on midwife toads' nuptial pads.

While the prehistoric ancestors of midwife toads had these pads, Kammerer considered this an acquired characteristic brought about by adaptation to environment.

Female Iberian midwife toads (Alytes cisternasii) use courtship calls to distinguish themselves from other male competitors.

Kammerer succeeded in making midwife toads breed in the water by increasing the temperature of their tanks, forcing them to retreat to the water to cool off.

Midwife toads (Alytes) are a genus of frogs in the Discoglossidae family, and are found in most of Europe and northwestern Africa.

What we thought was a faulty alarm bleeping every evening turned out to be Midwife toads, which have now colonised our pond and rockery and kick up a real din on summer evenings.

Buffy-headed capuchins are housed near the exit of the Tropical Realm as well as a group of native sand lizards, midwife toads and a mixed enclosure for red-knobbed curassow and blue jays.

The male midwife toads were not genetically programmed for the underwater mating that necessarily followed and thus, over the span of two generations, Kammerer reported that his midwife toads were exhibiting black nuptial pads on their feet to give them more traction in this underwater mating process.