Incredible Discovery of Tiny Frog


	Incredible Discovery of Tiny Frog

Amergin

10-6-2007 5:44 PM

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worlds, smallest frog

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10-7-2007 3:42 PM

davboz

Little fella.

10-7-2007 10:06 PM

pink panther

How cute for a frog.

10-9-2007 4:44 AM

cullet

靠……这么小……没一个钱币大……

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Biju and his colleagues have found this new frog, India’s smallest land vertebrate, in the Western Ghats of Kerala, a mountainous region in the western portion of India. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.cryptomundo.com/cryptozoo-news/tiny-nightfrog/"><P>The humid rainforests of the Western Ghats are the perfect habitat for these nocturnal frogs, which enjoy making mating calls from under leaf litter and among the roots of ferns during the monsoon months. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.cryptomundo.com/cryptozoo-news/tiny-nightfrog/"><P>The common name for its genus is “Nightfrog,” and Biju has scientifically named the frog, <EM>Nyctibatrachus minimus</EM>.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.cryptomundo.com/cryptozoo-news/tiny-nightfrog/"><P>Other extremely small frogs exist in various parts of the world, including Cuba, the Amazon and Borneo.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.cryptomundo.com/cryptozoo-news/tiny-nightfrog/">Biju has been searching in the Western Ghats to find new species of frogs for the past several years, and his discoveries include the purple frog (<EM>Nasikabatrachus</EM>)</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/74DBB119-AC53-49E8-A5F4-F74DBB7AB426/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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