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WillemSvdMerwe — Spotted Shovelnosed Frog

Published: 2012-12-11 18:27:47 +0000 UTC; Views: 1341; Favourites: 34; Downloads: 24
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Description The Spotted Shovel-nosed Frog, Hemisus guttatus, is a very strange burrowing frog from South Africa. Unlike other burrowing frogs, which use their hind legs for digging and go backward, this one pushes into the soil head-first using its hard, wedge-shaped snout. Its eyes are small so as to not get in the way. Watercolour.
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Comments: 3

Sarahharas07 [2012-12-12 07:47:52 +0000 UTC]

strange one indeed, but very beautifully painted

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WillemSvdMerwe In reply to Sarahharas07 [2012-12-12 19:52:00 +0000 UTC]

Thanks! It's a 'gespikkelde graafneuspadda' in Afrikaans!

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Sarahharas07 In reply to WillemSvdMerwe [2012-12-12 20:18:23 +0000 UTC]

Oh, I like that much better than the english !

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