. The infancy of animals. Animals. CONCERNING TADPOLES 199 Some frogs take up the burden of their young only after they have assumed the tadpole stage—as, for example, in certain S. American and African species. But of their life-history little is known. A small frog found in the Seychelles {Arthroleftis Seychellensis) undertakes a similar guardianship. This fact was discovered by the German naturalist Brauer, who found during August, at about 1,500 feet above the sea-level, an adult of the species. DARWIN S FROG. bearing nine tadpoles on its back, to which they adhered by a sucker on the bell
. The infancy of animals. Animals. CONCERNING TADPOLES 199 Some frogs take up the burden of their young only after they have assumed the tadpole stage—as, for example, in certain S. American and African species. But of their life-history little is known. A small frog found in the Seychelles {Arthroleftis Seychellensis) undertakes a similar guardianship. This fact was discovered by the German naturalist Brauer, who found during August, at about 1,500 feet above the sea-level, an adult of the species. DARWIN S FROG. bearing nine tadpoles on its back, to which they adhered by a sucker on the belly. In such cases it is believed that the eggs are laid in some shallow pool, and that later, one or other of the parents returns to take up the young. Unhappily nothing else is known of their history. Two further remarkable cases yet remain to be con- sidered. The first of these is that of the West African Short-handed Tree-frog {Hylambates brevicefs), wherein the. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Pycraft, W. P. , (William Plane), b. 1868. New York, H. Holt and Company
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