Toad Babies Emerging from Mother’s Skin (video)
March 16th, 2008
In another example that Mother Nature has a pretty messed up personality, here’s a skin-crawling video of a Surinam Toad giving birth. Well, of course, it’s an amphibian, so it doesn’t give birth as such… Over to Wikipipedia to explain things:
Surinam toads are most well-known for their remarkable reproductive habits. The partners rise off of the floor while in amplexus and flip through the water in arcs. During each arc, the female releases 3-10 eggs, which get embedded in the skin on her back by the male’s movements. After implantation the eggs sink into the skin and form pockets over a period of several days, eventually taking on the appearance of an irregular honeycomb. The larvae develop through the tadpole stage inside these pockets, eventually emerging from the mother’s back as fully developed toads
Freaky!
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5 Comments Add your own
1. FuzzLinks.com » Toa&hellip | March 23rd, 2008 at 4:18 pm
[...] The larvae develop through the tadpole stage inside pockets embedded in the skin, eventually emerging from the mother’s back as fully developed toads. Creepy.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCayq56wHSA&eurl=http://www.sciencepunk.com/v5/2008/03/toad-babie… [...]
2. Johnsenclan » Blog &hellip | March 24th, 2008 at 4:55 pm
[...] toads emerging from mother’s back [...]
3. All about developer &raqu&hellip | March 25th, 2008 at 7:48 am
[...] in the skin, eventually emerging from the mother’s back as fully developed toads. Creepy.read more | digg [...]
4. Mike | March 26th, 2008 at 9:32 pm
What an annoying voice, I wouldn’t make it through a blowjob with her. Well, not again…
5. ideonexus.com » Blo&hellip | April 7th, 2008 at 10:03 am
[...] Moment of Science: Surinam Toads birthing out of their mother’s back (ht Science Punk): [...]
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