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Moor frogs (Rana arvalis) temporarily turning blue at the Ljubljana Marshes, Slovenia. It is thought that males turn blue during the mating season so they can quickly distinguish males from females among the dense frog populations
Photograph: Luka Esenko/Rex Features
(Source: Guardian)
Two frogs jump for their lives as a duck lands on a branch where they were sunbathing.
Photograph: Thomas Jensen (Medical Prognosis Institute, Denmark)/BMC Ecology Image Competition
(Source: Guardian)
Reed Frog, Botswana by Petra Warner
A frog hitches a lift on the back of a snail, Central Borneo, Indonesia.
Picture: Nordin Seruyan / Barcroft Media
A Helen’s Flying Frog perches on a branch in Nui Ong Nature Reserve in Vietnam’s Binh Thuan Province. Australian biologist Jodi Rowley and Vietnamese colleagues have made a surprise discovery - a new species of flying frog gliding and jumping around less than 100 km (62 miles) from one of Southeast Asia’s busiest cities.
Picture: REUTERS/Australian Museum/Jodi Rowley
Sweet singing frog (Gracixalus quangi)
Picture: Jodi J. L. Rowley / Australian Museum / New Species Found
‘Yin-yang’ frog (Leptobrachium leucops)
Picture: Jodi J. L. Rowley / Australian Museum / New Species Found
A tree snake (Dendrelaphis Pictus) preys on a frog in the banana trees in a forest of Jombang, East Java, Indonesia
Photograph: Syaiful Arif /Rex Features
(Source: Guardian)
Are you looking for me?
Photo by Bea Moedt
Three-fingered frog discovered in southern Brazil
A tiny, three-fingered frog in a rainforest reserve in southern Brazil was officially recognised as a new species this week after its discovery in 2007 by biologist Michel Garey.
A inquisitive Cuban treefrog pokes his head out from a hole in Florida.
Picture: Leigh-Ann Perron/Caters
Golden Tree Frog
Photograph by Joel Sartore
