Thursday, April 11, 2013
African bullfrog
A African bullfrog is found in Angola, Botswana, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe. Its habitat are dry savanna, moist savanna, dry shrubland, freshwater lakes, freshwater marshes, arable land, pastureland, canals and ditches. These are large frogs. The males weigh 1.4 kg and the females weigh 2 kg, so the females are bigger than the male ones. The way they look is that they have a chubby round body and big broad head with big mouth. They have no web on their front feet but have some webs on their back feet. The skin is bumpy and olive green color, but yellow belly and throat. The African bullfrogs are carnivorous and voracious eaters, they eat insects, small rodents, reptiles, small birds and other amphibians. The sound that they make is croaking sounds. These frogs can live 35 years or more.
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