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Baw Baw frog
Mr Picky
I remain inactive when it is cold, and
even otherwise, I prefer to hide beneath
vegetation, roots, logs, and rocks. The
females are taller in our family, and
when males call them, they go, ‘aaaaark
kruk kruk kruk’!
parreeafesrasrtohuenBdaiwtsBhaowmpe lwatheearue. the
Although ftrhoegrecaanrelimvea,niyt
Baw Baw
Wonder baby Did you know?
My mother, with her special fingers, The Baw Baw frog can leap up
spun a protective nest around the egg to 1.5 metres forward
that I was born in. When I came out of and can eat about
the egg, I didn’t even have to look for 4.5 kilograms of
food for a few months because I had a food each week.
yolk sac attached to my body that gave
me nutrition.
What’s happening to me? Deforestation is robbing the Baw Baw frog of its home.
Eighty per cent of my family has
disappeared, our numbers have gone
from 10,000 to a mere 250 in the last
twenty years and no one knows why.
Scientists say that it is probably due
to climate change, pollution, and new
big animals coming to stay on my
plateau. It may even be the deadly
fungal disease chytridiomycosis
that is killing amphibians the
world over.
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Mr Picky
I remain inactive when it is cold, and
even otherwise, I prefer to hide beneath
vegetation, roots, logs, and rocks. The
females are taller in our family, and
when males call them, they go, ‘aaaaark
kruk kruk kruk’!
parreeafesrasrtohuenBdaiwtsBhaowmpe lwatheearue. the
Although ftrhoegrecaanrelimvea,niyt
Baw Baw
Wonder baby Did you know?
My mother, with her special fingers, The Baw Baw frog can leap up
spun a protective nest around the egg to 1.5 metres forward
that I was born in. When I came out of and can eat about
the egg, I didn’t even have to look for 4.5 kilograms of
food for a few months because I had a food each week.
yolk sac attached to my body that gave
me nutrition.
What’s happening to me? Deforestation is robbing the Baw Baw frog of its home.
Eighty per cent of my family has
disappeared, our numbers have gone
from 10,000 to a mere 250 in the last
twenty years and no one knows why.
Scientists say that it is probably due
to climate change, pollution, and new
big animals coming to stay on my
plateau. It may even be the deadly
fungal disease chytridiomycosis
that is killing amphibians the
world over.
40–41
