Cape River Frog

Description:

Amietia fuscigulas are fairly big, typical frog with a snout-to-vent measurement of around 125 mm. It can be various colours ranging from dark-though light-brown also commonly green or olive,or with green streaks for camouflage. The back and limbs are more clearly blotched with darker and irregular spots. It has a slightly rounded snout. It is designed to be able to love in its environment because,it has a powerful, athletic build with long hind legs and feet for leaping and swimming. It has camouflage colours to hide from Herons. It has webbed feet It also has a tympanum that is an external hearing structure in a frog. Amietia Fuscigula's don't have symbiotic relationships with any species. Cape River Frogs reproduce with a swollen nuptial pad. It is a secondary sex characteristic that some mature male frogs have. It is triggered by androgen hormones, this breeding gland appears as a spikes epithelial swelling on the forearm that aids grip, used to grasp female with his front legs so they can mate. So Cape River Frogs reproduce sexually.

Habitat:

Cape River Frogs live in a wide range of temperate to tropical habitats wherever there is least sufficient seasonal fresh water for breeding. They occur widely in Lesotho, Namibia, South Africa, and Swaziland. You can find them specifically in arable land, pasture land, a savannah, shrub land, grasslands, rivers, swamps, freshwater lakes, marshes and springs. Cape River Frogs are active go-getter predators, readily feeding on moderately sized invertebrates such as crickets, but also attacks small reptiles, mammals, and amphibians, including smaller member of its species. Predators of the Cape River Frog are Herons. Cape River Frogs fend for themselves they don't have any symbiotic, mutualism , or parasitic relationships with any particular species.