African Red Toad

Schismaderma carens

The African Red Toad is a colorful little creature that loves to hop around in warm places. With its bright red skin, it can be hard to miss! These toads are great at blending in with their surroundings.

Hábitat: Savannas

Aspecto

The African Red Toad is a robust amphibian with reddish-brown or grey-brown skin, often covered in darker spots or blotches. Unusually for a toad, its skin is relatively smooth rather than warty. It also has prominent parotid glands located behind its eyes.

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African Red Toad

Categoría

Anfibios

Rareza

Common

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Datos interesantes

African Red Toads have unusually smooth skin, unlike the warty skin found on most other toad species!

Male African Red Toads inflate a single, large vocal sac under their chin to make very loud mating calls!

Their tadpoles often swim together in massive, dense schools, looking like tiny underwater clouds!

These toads often breed in temporary puddles, requiring their tadpoles to grow up super fast!

Habilidades especiales

African Red Toads have special glands behind their eyes that release a milky toxin to deter predators.

African Red Toads can rapidly burrow backwards into soft soil using their powerful legs to hide from danger or dry weather.

African Red Toads possess excellent night vision, helping them find and ambush insects and other prey in the dark.

Medidas y detalles

Longitud: 7-10.5 cm
Peso: 0.05-0.15 kg
Esperanza de vida: 5-10 años
Top Speed: 0.2 km/h
Tamaño de la puesta: 2000-5000
Metamorfosis: 28-56 días

Dieta y alimentación

African Red Toads are insectivores, mostly eating bugs and other small invertebrates.

Diferencias por edad: Tadpoles are herbivorous or detritivorous, grazing on algae and decaying plant matter. Adults are carnivorous.

Alimentos principales

Beetles
Crickets
Ants
Termites
Spiders

Método de búsqueda

Ambush

Conexiones ecológicas

eaten by

Puff Adder

Bitis arietans

A common venomous snake predator.

eaten by

Grey Heron

Ardea cinerea

Herons catch toads near water.

hunts

Two-spotted Cricket

Gryllus bimaculatus

Ambushes crickets hiding in grass.

hunts

Natal Termite

Macrotermes natalensis

Eats termites emerging from mounds.

Rasgos

Solitario

Los animales solitarios viven solos durante la mayor parte de su vida y solo interactúan con otros para aparearse o cuidar de sus crías.

Canto

Los animales cantores producen vocalizaciones complejas, a menudo con el propósito de atraer parejas, defender el territorio o comunicarse dentro de su especie.

Camuflado

El camuflaje describe a los organismos que poseen colores o patrones que les permiten mezclarse con su entorno.

Colorido

Colorido describe a organismos u objetos que exhiben una amplia variedad de colores brillantes y distintivos.

Insectívoro

Este rasgo identifica a los organismos cuya dieta consiste principalmente en insectos y otros pequeños invertebrados.

Sabana

Este rasgo de hábitat denota especies nativas de las sabanas, que son pastizales con árboles dispersos, típicamente encontrados en regiones tropicales o subtropicales con estaciones secas y húmedas marcadas.