Introduction: Shenzhen surprised the "albino frog"? It looks like a bullfrog, the body is milky white, the eyes are black, and the skin is fairly flat, what kind of creature is this? Experts revealed that it is a spot-legged tree frog.
Look at the picture to speak, white, tall as a fist, eyes are black, is it a frog, a toad? Please give us an appraisal.
On the morning of May 2, the reporter drove the car to the Dongyi Automobile Trading Market in Luohu District, Shenzhen For maintenance. In the process of waiting, a big sister who did hygiene suddenly ran over to the reporter and said that she did not know what kind of thing was lying on the side of the window, which looked quite crazy. As soon as the reporter listened, he followed the direction of the eldest sister's finger and saw a white creature lying on the side of the window, motionless, and looked a little unspeakable from a distance.
Then the reporter went up to take a closer look, this creature looks like a bullfrog, the body is milky white, the eyes are black, the skin is quite flat, and it is quite cute up close. Because he did not know whether this was a protected animal, the reporter took a photo with his mobile phone, did not catch it, and let it lazily lie by the window and bask in the sun.
The reporter also did not know what kind of creature this was, put the photo into the circle of friends, and soon many friends put forward various "conclusions", some said that it was a golden toad, some said it was a bamboo frog, some said it was a tree frog, and some people said that this was a frog with albinism. Now publish the photo, please see, what is this thing? The reporter just put Wentu on the circle of friends, and did not expect to trigger the "sensational effect" of dozens of friends in the circle! Everyone has speculated about who is sacred to infer this small animal, and the reply to the instant discussion has been dozens of times.
Experts revealed: it turned out to be a spot-legged tree frog
To say that the circle of friends is really a magical place, through another reporter in the circle of friends, the reporter consulted The Shenzhen wildlife researcher Li Cheng, who some time ago reported on the Dapeng Peninsula that he found a new species of Frog in Shenzhen - the Round-tongue Floating Frog, and at the same time has in-depth research and understanding of snakes and frogs. Li Cheng only glanced at the "white man" and asserted that it was a spotted-legged pan-tree frog. However, most of the tree frogs are green, and the standard photo of the spotted-legged pan tree frog on Baidu is light brown, and some pictures are yellow, why is this white all over? Li Cheng explained that in the daytime when the temperature is relatively high, we can see the white-winged tree frog. "Many tree frogs change color with their surroundings and temperature, and the spot-legged tree frog is one of them."
So is the spot-legged pan-tree frog common in Shenzhen? Li Cheng said that there are about 72 species of tree frogs reported throughout China, and the only one reported in Shenzhen is the spot-legged pan-tree frog. Because it is closely related to the human living environment, the spotted-legged tree frog will appear in the deciduous pile, the fountain in the community, and even the toilet in the resident's home in the humid environment.
Li Cheng said that the survival of tree frogs mainly requires two conditions, one is tropical or subtropical areas, and the other is a humid environment. Shenzhen is exactly in the tropical and subtropical junction area, but here is affected by the monsoon, there are half a year of relatively dry weather, so there are not many species of tree frogs living here. Tree frogs are one of the important indicators of environmental diversity, because tree frogs have higher requirements for the living environment. For example, there are 11 species of tree frogs reported in Taiwan, about 13 species in Hainan, and more in Yunnan, Guizhou and other provinces. Unexpectedly, the place with the highest density of tree frogs in China is in Tibet. There are many tree frogs living in the primeval rainforests of the Metuo region of Tibet.
How do you tell the difference between a tree frog and a regular frog? Li Cheng said that most of the tree frogs have slender and flat bodies, long hind limbs, large suction cups on the fingers and toes, and developed webbing between the fingers and toes. "There is also a type of frog in Shenzhen that looks like a tree frog, the South China rain frog, which has only been reported on the Dapeng Peninsula." Li Cheng said that Hong Kong and Huizhou, which are close to Shenzhen, have tree frogs that have not been reported by Shenzhen, such as the Lu's small tree frog reported on Hong Kong's outlying islands with a body length of only 1.5 to 2 centimeters, and the large tree frog with a green body reported in Huizhou, which has not yet been found in Shenzhen.
Many people have a sense of disgust for frogs, but Li Cheng told reporters that the tree frog is actually a very friendly small animal, it mainly eats termites, mosquitoes, cockroaches and other insects that are harmful to humans. And its habit is to rise day and night, nocturnal birds have rested, frogs will come out to "eliminate pests and protect humans". The spot-legged pan-tree frog is distributed in all districts of Shenzhen, but usually everyone does not pay attention to it. Li Cheng suggested that after finding the tree frog, the most correct thing to do is to let it stay there quietly, or send it back to the humid environment and let it leave on its own.