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Old 07-25-2011, 04:30 PM
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Default Species of the Week: The Purple Frog

This frog in not only extraordinary in its appearance but also in the way it lives. *Unlike most frogs the purple frog (Nasikabatrachus sahyadrensis) spends most of its time underground burrowing for terminates. The only time it comes out of the ground is to breed during the monsoon season. The species has evolved for this [...]

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Old 07-25-2011, 06:09 PM
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Wow thats an amazing frog! Thanks for posting it.
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Freaky little Mole-Frog!! How does that guy ever find a date? Seems like the species should have died out! Maybe the girls are blind?
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