Frogs and baby frogs?

Question

hi, i was wondering why some frogs '' give birth'' out of thier backs, its weird.

Answer 1

They don't actually give birth on their backs, but I understand what you're asking.

There are two kinds of frogs that you might be thinking about here. The first kind is poison dart frogs from the Central and South American tropical rainforests. Where these frogs live, there isn't a lot of standing water like ponds or lakes. It's all in the soil or in cavities or cup shaped leaves in certain plants. So the frogs can't just lay their eggs in water like frogs with which you're probably more familiar. They could lay them in some of these vase-shaped plants (bromeliads) or in holes in trees, but there's a risk that these would dry up. So the frogs lay their eggs on the ground under fallen leaves where the moisture is kept from evaporating as quickly. When the eggs hatch, they crawl onto their father's back, then get carried to a place where there is water right then (no guesswork!).

There's also a frog from this general area called a marsupial frog (marsupials include animals like kangaroos and koalas, which have a pouch where the young are raised). In this case, the pouch is on the mother's back. - and the father has to help by putting them into the pouch where they stay moist until they hatch. Once they hatch into tadpoles, the mother releases them in water like above where they can live and grow into frogs.

So while you may consider them "weird", it's nature's way of making sure these frogs are able to reproduce, given the lack of large bodies of water in the rainforest.

Answer 2

complex step. seek onto google. that will can help!