What do you reckon of this toad ? Kind of precious , you intend ? utterly harmless , you think ? Not at all like the living incarnation of the Saw movies , you guess ? Well , you ’re incorrect . The “ horror toad ” more than live up to its nickname .
Officially , this is send for the haired frog , and it ’s easy to see why . The “ fur ” you see get out of its sides is n’t really fur . The hairs are petty fleshy strands , kind of like the papillae you have on the top of your tongue . Scientists think that they help the hairy frog absorb oxygen from the piddle .
But it ’s not these slight hairs that give Trichobatrachus robustus its soubriquet . The “ repugnance toad frog ” earns its name when it is threaten . At first , when scientist picked up these salientian and have a scratch , they think that it had retractable claws . It does not have claws , retractable or otherwise . It makes claws . It does so by breaking the bones in its hands and feet and shooting the off-white fragmentize out through its own skin . It does all this on the off chance that these broken bone claws can cause the sort of damage that would dissuade a predatory animal . Can anyone reading this really say they want to live that much ?
plain , this strategy works . The claw offer enough of an evolutionary edge that the “ wolverine frog ” — and yes , that is another one of its nicknames — has a especial muscle that facilitates the break of its off-white and the extension of the bone out through its toe pad .
picture : legal proceeding of the Zoological Society of London 1901
[ author : Horror Frog Breaks Its Own Bones To Produce Claws . ]
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