I don't know if you have ever seen the magic movie "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", in which a chocolate frog appeared.
In fact, it is just a kind of chocolate candy that looks like a frog in the wizarding world, and as a result, it is magically cast, and when the candy box is opened, it becomes a live chocolate frog, and then the chocolate frog appears on the train where the children are riding.
At that time, when we watched the movie, it was only chocolate that was magically applied, and the magic movie was evocative, and we didn't think that anyone really found the same chocolate frog in reality as in the special effects of the movie.
Photo taken in the Prali River basin
The discovery of this new species is very interesting, Australia has a White tree frog (belonging to the rain frog family), widely distributed in the northern and eastern parts of Australia seasonal dry and wet habitats, and later in the northern Part of Australia 150 kilometers across the sea of the island of New Guinea rainforest also found this White tree frog, completely different climate but living with the same kind of frog, which triggered the exploration of biologists, a study began to explore the relevant history, geological evolution and biological population characteristics and so on.
In 2016, Australian biologists in the process of exploration of new Guinea Island, in the inaccessible hot swamp accidentally found a new species of chocolate frog, the skin color is completely like chocolate, just because the discovery site is rare and there are crocodiles and various mosquitoes, which also caused the chocolate frog to be unknown, and finally after several years of comparison and determination is a new species.
The researchers named the chocolate frog after the Latin Litoria mira, which means "surprised, strange" in Latin mira, so we can later call the chocolate frog the surprise frog.
In addition, the previously mentioned source of the White Tree Frog distributed on both sides of the Strait has also been confirmed, the Australian Tree Frog is a group of White Tree Frogs originating from the island of New Guinea, and there are multiple colonies across the Torres Strait, don't look at them called tree frogs, in fact, they are all rain frogs.
So which kind of frog is the chocolate frog (or is it called this way) closer? After several years of comparative exploration, the researchers found that the chocolate frog and the Australian green rain frog (belonging to the tree frog family) are close relatives, the chocolate frog adult body length of about 8 cm, the green rain frog is slightly larger about 10 cm or so, the two frog toes at the end of the long suction cup, the diameter of about 5 mm, greatly increasing their climbing ability, even in the vertical smooth glass surface can walk normally.
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Although they are close relatives there are still many physiological differences in addition to appearance.
Figures (a) and (b) are from the island of New Guinea, with the australian green rain frog
The island of New Guinea, where the chocolate frog is found, is also interesting, the second largest island in the world is divided into two countries, with a vertical line in the middle of the 141 degrees east longitude dividing the island in two, with Indonesia on the left and Papua New Guinea on the right, divided in Oceania.
boundary
The photos in the researchers' paper indicate that the location is in Mira Paratypals Papua New Guinea in the upper river region, and whether there are any chocolate frogs in other areas of the island remains to be confirmed.
"Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" is the first magic novel by J.K. Rowling, the film version was released in 2002, we who have watched this film have long entered the frenzy of socialist cause construction, in ordinary life, there is such a secret spiritual world can place our imagination and desire for magic, it is also a very happy thing, and now it is more of an unforgettable memory that touches the heart.
The chocolate frog that appears several times in this movie is found in reality, perhaps it is only Ms. Rowling's imagination in the creation, of course, it is not excluded that the author has been to the island of New Guinea to see this frog, perhaps there is no connection between them, just a coincidence!
References: Australian Journal of Zoology Multiple trans-Torres Strait colonisations by tree frogs inthe Litoria caerulea group, with the description of a new species from New Guinea.
The image comes from the Internet.