Guess how big the smallest frog in China is?
Guess where it "lives"?
Well, I won't sell it to everyone anymore
Let's take a look at our protagonist today —
The back is brownish brown
Small in stature
The jump height is about 10cm, and the long-range is nearly 50cm
Known as "China's Smallest Frog"
Lu's little tree frog
A few days ago, it was found for the first time to "live" in Zhuhai
It's this little guy
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According to the official website of the Guangdong Forestry Bureau
November 4 news
Guangdong Zhuhai Qi'ao-Dangan Island Provincial Nature Reserve
A few days ago, when the wetland sample line survey was carried out
It was first spotted
News knows a lot
The Loh tree frog belongs to the frog family, Tree frog family, endemic to China, and the model origin is Hong Kong. It inhabits shrubland or grassland in and around submerged puddles under seaside caves.
The species is nocturnal, hiding in trees or dead leaf bottoms during the day, preying on termites or other small insects. Tadpoles are brown, transparent at the tail, with brown dots on them, and metamorphosis is completed in about 4-6 weeks.
The staff of the reserve introduced, "Frogs are one of the key targets of this sample line survey, we found that the Lu's small tree frog was in a humid habitat with streams, at that time heard a more unique call, and saw that it has a strong jumping ability, visual jump height of about 10cm, long distance is nearly 50cm, you know, Lu's small tree frog is only 1-2cm long." ”
Other words
Your thumb may be longer than it!
It is reported that it is currently in China
It is only found on the islands of Lamma, Tai Ho and Po Tai in Hong Kong
and 100,000 mountains in Guangxi
Hainan Wuzhishan and other places
Listed endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) in 2004 and protected by Chapter 170 of the Wildlife Conservation Ordinance. The discovery of the Lu small tree frog fills the geographical gap in its distribution in Guangdong Province, and provides new data for the distribution and habitat research of the tree frog family.
Lu's little tree frog:
"Look at my body, have you found me?"
Comprehensive: Guangdong Forestry Bureau official website, Guangdong release
Source: Guangdong public DV site