Tag: Budgett’s frog

toadschooled:

Most frogs have a tadpole stage that is indistinguishable from other tadpoles of different species, so its always neat when you can look at a tadpole and immediately tell which species they belong to. This specimen is a young Budgett’s frog [also known as the wide-mouth frog, Lepidobatrachus laevis] and in typical Budgett’s fashion the first thing it does when encountering something unusual [in this case its owner’s fingers] is try to eat it.