{"id":394,"date":"2013-02-18T18:19:17","date_gmt":"2013-02-18T23:19:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rainforeststationpets.com\/?p=394"},"modified":"2020-11-28T07:01:14","modified_gmt":"2020-11-28T14:01:14","slug":"check-out-this-weird-frog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rainforeststationpets.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/18\/check-out-this-weird-frog\/","title":{"rendered":"Check out this weird frog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cBkWhkAZ9ds\" height=\"315\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We love frogs, especially the microhylids. And the weirder, the better!<\/p>\n<p>This is the&nbsp;Namaqua Rain Frog<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Namaqua_Rain_Frog\">From Wikipedia:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The&nbsp;<b>Namaqua Rain Frog<\/b>&nbsp;(<i><b>Breviceps namaquensis<\/b><\/i>) is a species of&nbsp;<a title=\"Frog\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Frog\">frog<\/a>&nbsp;in the&nbsp;<a title=\"Microhylidae\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Microhylidae\">Microhylidae<\/a>&nbsp;family. It is found in&nbsp;<a title=\"South Africa\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/South_Africa\">South Africa<\/a>&nbsp;and possibly&nbsp;<a title=\"Namibia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Namibia\">Namibia<\/a>. Its natural&nbsp;<a title=\"Habitat\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Habitat\">habitats<\/a>&nbsp;are subtropical or tropical dry&nbsp;<a title=\"Shrubland\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shrubland\">shrubland<\/a>&nbsp;and sandy shores. It is threatened by&nbsp;<a title=\"Habitat loss\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Habitat_loss\">habitat loss<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>Identification<\/h2>\n<p>Adult frogs attain a body length of 46 mm.<\/p>\n<p>The Namaqua Rain Frog has a squat, rotund body with a short, narrow head which has a relatively large eye,a flat face and narrow mouth. The limbs are short and stumpy and the fingers and toes lack webbing and adhesive discs. The upper body surface is brown with lighter brown to cream patches on the back and sides. These patches are occasionally fused together and may include irregular pairs of paravertebral patches. The underside is mainly smooth and white, but the skin is translucent in parts, and the throat area may be granular with dark markings around the jaw line.<\/p>\n<h2>Behaviour<\/h2>\n<p>This frog is a burrowing species that spends most of its time underground and does not inhabit water. It occurs generally in dry, low-lying areas that are predominantly sandy and well covered with scrub vegetation &#8211; but has also been recorded in hilly areas with more loamy and rocky substrates. When disturbed, these frogs have the ability to inflate their bodies dramatically as a defence mechanism to deter predators. Breeding activity has been recorded in winter, spring and summer . They spend most of their time underground, surfacing after the rains to feed on insects.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/rcm-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/cm?o=1&amp;p=48&amp;l=ur1&amp;category=primemain&amp;banner=0RDXBNPWC03XZMXQZGR2&amp;f=ifr&amp;linkID=3f57ef9d987670728e9db979b0d12a60&amp;t=jameshitchcoc-20&amp;tracking_id=jameshitchcoc-20\" width=\"728\" height=\"90\" scrolling=\"no\" border=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" style=\"border:none;\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; We love frogs, especially the microhylids. And the weirder, the better! This is the&nbsp;Namaqua Rain Frog From Wikipedia: The&nbsp;Namaqua Rain Frog&nbsp;(Breviceps namaquensis) is a species of&nbsp;frog&nbsp;in the&nbsp;Microhylidae&nbsp;family. It is found in&nbsp;South Africa&nbsp;and possibly&nbsp;Namibia. Its natural&nbsp;habitats&nbsp;are subtropical or tropical dry&nbsp;shrubland&nbsp;and sandy shores. It is threatened by&nbsp;habitat loss. Identification Adult frogs attain a body length of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rainforeststationpets.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/18\/check-out-this-weird-frog\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Check out this weird frog<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[29,26,3,5,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amphibians","category-exotic_pets","category-frogs_toads","category-pets","category-terrestrial-frogs"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rainforeststationpets.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rainforeststationpets.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rainforeststationpets.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rainforeststationpets.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rainforeststationpets.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.rainforeststationpets.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":637,"href":"https:\/\/www.rainforeststationpets.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394\/revisions\/637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rainforeststationpets.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rainforeststationpets.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rainforeststationpets.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}