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Dj Quiva


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Proud Papa


Look at this proud papa with his clutch and two newly hatched froglets. Have you ever seen a frog more proud of his egg mass?

The male Oreophryne is a native to Papua, New Guinea. He is a devoted father, who embraces his clutch each night to keep the eggs moist and to ward off predators. As a father myself, I commend this frog.

As a sidenote, these frogs belong to the Microhylidae family, many of whose offspring bypass the tadpole phase and emerge from the egg as fully developed frogs. Can't we do this for humans too? Skip the whole teenager phase? The frogs don't know how good they have it. How 'bout it, science?


 source: National Geographic
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-- Edited by Dj_Rubbut at 09:55, 2008-12-02

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