Monday 9 June 2008

The Smoky Jungle Frog, or "Rana Toro" - Leptodactylus pentadactylus














Now that rainy season is well underway and all of the little creatures of the night forest are showing up on our doorstep (!) we recently had the chance to photograph this gorgeous specimen of Leptodactylus pentadactylus, locally known as "Rana Toro", and with the fabulous common name of Smoky Jungle Frog. This is one pretty large, pretty fast frog. Too fast even for Nilo! Those markings around its mouth give it a pretty sharp-toothed look too!