Photo "Frog in the water pot"

Good afternoon friends! I want to show you the Frog of the water-carrier in the zoo of Ukraine in the city of Nikolaev.

The number of adults is up to 25 cm. Females are usually smaller - up to 12 cm. Weight is up to 2 kg. The body is wide, the head is large rounded with a wide mouth. The mouth has sharp teeth.

It conducts night terrestrial life (in the daytime it sits in the water in shallow water or burrows into the coastal soil). During a drought, she burrows into the mud, falls into a hibernation, and to not die from dehydration, stores in the bladder 0.5 liters of water. This "flask" is often used by local residents. Frogs begin to feed on insects (crickets, for example), earthworms, and later on to naked mice, frogs, then to larger mice and frogs. Unlike other relatives, reacting only to the moving food, the digging frog eats greedily on the stationary fodder. The jaws of this frog are very, very powerful and it is almost impossible to unclench them.

Have a nice day, everyone!