Although the frog sang the song of "widowhood and widowhood", the matter of love and mate selection did not delay at all.
A few days ago, Zhao Li, director of the Chengdu Huaxi Insect Museum, encountered a rare "courtship party" scene of more than 100 Emei tree frogs at the foot of Qingcheng Mountain. He said that he had also met the Emei tree frog courtship before, but there were up to a dozen or so, and even the relevant videos seen on the Internet at present did not see more than a hundred gathering scenes, "which can be described as quite spectacular." ”
Courtship scene
Zhao Li recalled the scene at that time, "That day I was climbing and exercising on Mount Qingcheng, and when I went down the mountain at night, I saw hundreds of Emei tree frogs gathered on a tree near a puddle near the foot of the mountain. Tree frogs always come out at night to court, usually in late spring and early summer, when the male tree frog finds a pond where it can reproduce, it will gather around and make a chirping to attract the female frog, and then the female frog will climb to the tree directly above the pond to choose a vantage point. Zhao Li described the large number of male frogs at the scene as very loud and could be heard more than 100 meters away.
Courtship scene
At the scene, Zhao Li saw two special scenes. One of them is a group of male frogs pursuing a female frog at the same time, "because there are few female frogs, every 'beautiful woman' will attract a group of competitors." The most one is pursued by four at the same time. There is even a male frog next to it that 'looks'. "Another special scene is that a pair has already laid eggs, but a third party tries to force the foot.
Seeing this scene, Zhao Li immediately took out a camera to record it, he said, there is a place where this kind of tree frog gathers, there will be a deep pond below, and the pond is just covered with a large tree, "because the tree frog lays eggs in the tree, not in the water, they wrap the eggs with the foam secreted by the female frog, and then wrap the surrounding leaves, and when the tadpoles hatch, they will fall into the pond below." ”
Emei tree frog eggs
In the past few days, Zhao Li visited the place where the last tree frog courtship party was, and last week's lively scene had disappeared, but there were many eggs hanging on the trees, some of which had begun to hatch, and some tree frog eggs dripped into the pond below along the foam dissolved by the rain, and new life was about to be born.
Red Star News reporter Zeng Qi according to the interviewee
Edited by Duan Xueying
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