Midwife Toads - The Genus Alytes

Name: Midwife Toads - The Genus Alytes
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These toads hold cultural and scientific recognition on account of their distinctive, bell-like peeping call and their unusual strategy of paternal care.... Show more

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Series	Frankfurter Beiträge zur Naturkunde
Authors	C. J. Michaels, J. Bosch, P. A. Jervis, R. Márquez & G. M. Rosa
ISBN	9783899731255
Publisher	Edition Chimaira
Language	English
Seiten	256
Format	Hardcover
Images	238 images, mainly color photos, but also maps
Year published	2023

Midwife toads of the genus Alytes form a small group of primarily Iberian anurans. These fascinating toads hold cultural and scientific recognition on account of their distinctive, bell-like peeping call and their unusual strategy of paternal care, all of which trumps their small, brown appearance and the rarity of encountering them in the wild. Within their range, the gentle chorus of midwife toads is synonymous with warm summer evenings and, for those who have tried to find the animals making the sounds, the frustration of hunting ventriloquists hidden in burrows and crevices. The paternal care of the male toads, which earn their common name by carrying egg clutches around their hind limbs before depositing their offspring in water when ready to hatch, is unusual per se, but especially so in the context of European anurans, in which parental care is otherwise absent.

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