"Vampire Flying Frog" Found; Tadpoles Have Black Fangs
The mountain jungles of Vietnam are home to a new breed of "vampire"—a "flying" tree frog dubbed Rhacophorus vampyrus. He to live only in southern Vietnamese cloud forests, where it uses webbed fingers and toes to glide from tree to tree. Adults deposit their eggs in water pools in tree trunks, which protects their offspring from predators lurking in rivers and ponds. "It has absolutely no reason to ever go down on the ground," said study leaderJordi Rowley, an amphibian biologist at the Australian Museum in Sydney. However, that trick isn't what earned the species its bloodsucking name. Rather, it's the strange curved "fangs" displayed by its tadpoles, which the scientists discovered in 2010. Tadpoles normally have mouthparts similar to a beak. Instead, vampire tree frog tadpoles have a pair of hard black hooks sticking out from the undersides of their mouths—the first time such fangs have been seen in a frog tadpole.
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- There isn't any conection with other news that have an impact on our world, because we know nothing of this animal and not even know if it has any effect on humans or cancure any disease.
