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Panamanian tree frog

 Panamanian tree frog

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The male and female tree frog squirt sperm and eggs in joint shudders of spawning. While they appear to be disobeying the amphibian’s golden rule: ‘Keep your babies wet!’ – the tadpoles, upon hatching, will in fact drop into a pond beneath the carefully chosen leaf on which their wet jelly nurseries were laid.

Text adapted in part from Dr Tatiana’s Sex Advice to All Creation



   
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