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a thumbnail-sized acrobat with sticky toes, swapping gravity for a vertical life among leaves.
means A small tree-dwelling frog with adhesive toe pads that let it climb and cling to leaves, branches, and smooth surfaces.
from A transparent English compound of "tree" and "frog," both ancient Germanic words: "tree" traces back to Old English "treow" (related to "true" and to Greek "drys," oak), and "frog" to Old English "frogga." The name simply puts the creature where you'll find it — up in the leaves rather than down in the pond — and the same plain logic shows up in other tongues, like German "Laubfrosch" ("leaf-frog").
- toe tech
- Mucus-coated pads grip wet vertical glass effortlessly
- antifreeze trick
- Some species freeze solid and thaw alive
- size
- Many fit comfortably on a fingertip
- night voice
- Males call loud enough to carry hundreds of meters
- color shift
- They change shade to match temperature and mood
red-eyed tree frog — agalychnis callidryas, native to central america from southern mexico to panama
white's tree frog — litoria caerulea, large australian arboreal frog popular in pet trade
golden tree frog — polypedates leucomystax, southeast asian species found across indonesia to philippines