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Chinese name: African giant frog
Scientific name: conraua goliath
Generic name: conraua
Diet: insects, scorpions, crustaceans or other frogs for food.
Distribution: southwestern Cameroon.
Characteristics: Length 170-320mm. Weighing up to 3250 grams, as the world's largest biotechnology Anura.
Living habits: tropical rain forest habitat in streams, leaving almost no waterfront living. The habitat of the cold water temperature is 16-23.
African giant frog may be the biggest frog family head, a body weight of adult males less than 3 kg, body length 30 cm, if it's legs opened, up to 1 meter in length. It is said that only in Suriname, "比法马里尼" Toad can be compared. However, this rare species of frogs are facing extinction, its name has been prohibited by the Washington Treaty on the international trade of endangered species red list.
The reason is simple, it is the more deforestation, forest, the less edible prey, those who have traditionally relied on hunting in the life of poor people, had turned her eyes to giant frogs, because of the delicious taste of Warou pole. Giant frog prey not only local people, in Yaounde and Douala and other cities, food giant frogs and even became a fashion, the banquet and wedding also ultimately dish.
In addition, the illegal trade in African giant frog is also very popular. Capture the giant frogs in addition to their local food, but also to get the market to sell, giant frog has become their source of income rolling. 2 kg weight of a frog to sell 2000-3000 CFA francs (about 4 dollars), if more males of a tall, priced at up to 8,000 CFA francs.
African giant frog with the other frogs, like in vitro fertilization methods used for breeding. Adult female frog general annual dry season (December to next April) in the steep banks of the river rock and lay eggs, and males come to the frog egg fertilization. The present situation is that this frog is often not long into the breeding season had been captured by humans.
80 years of the 20th century, the United States imports a large number of giant frogs from Africa to "high jump", this frog's jumping ability is very strong, can jump 5 meters tall. Because long-haul transport, more than half of the giant frog in the road death. Although now that international trade has been banned, but some still sneak the illegal transactions.
It appears that the African giant frog with the rest of the world, like species extinction, to escape this fate, is almost impossible. |
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