Housewife Toad

It's a kind of toad carrying lots of eggs on people who look like housewives wearing a white apron. But the story

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It's a kind of toad carrying lots of eggs on people who look like housewives wearing a white apron. But the "housewife" is . " toad him " and not by . "to her ".

The scientific name is Alytes obstetricans mainly active at night, some types of housewife toads only live in caves. They sleep during the winter but when spring comes, we wake up and get ready for the breeding season. When the male hugged his children, he gathered the eggs that the female had just laid and wrapped the eggs around his hind legs. Since the night of that festival, Daddy had to keep eggs. During the 20-50 days, the father had to carry eggs everywhere.

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Tadpole

The white " egg apron " caused the Alytes obstetricans to be called " toad housewives ".

After that, the father dropped the eggs into the pond, where the eggs would hatch and tadpoles would experience " childhood " under the water.

His body was covered with stubborn housewives, big heads, big, bulging eyes, yellow irises. The limbs are short and strong, each "hand" has three small bumps. The back is gray or greenish-brown, jagged with all kinds of pimples of all shapes, white or grayish belly.

Distributed in western Europe, the male body length is about 5cm.

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Update 16 December 2018
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