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The new species of frog nicknamed as ‘Tapir’ frog which is similar to the ‘Chocolate frogs’ shown in the movie ‘Harry Potter’ has been found in the Amazon Rain forests.
The popular nature website ‘Mongaboy’ reports that the researchers have earthed a new species of burrowing frog in the Peruvian Amazon that resembles chocolate. The Herpetologists used the frog’s call to locate and dig up three individual frogs. In the further study, the DNA analysis has confirmed that the species was known to locals but it had not yet been described by science.
The research team had detected these small frogs at one of the rarest habitats in the Amazon rainforest that is called Amazon peatlands.
Now with the discovery of the Tapir frog, the researchers have got another reason to conserve this peatland and the surrounding area.
German Chavez, a researcher at Peruvian Institute of Herpetology said ‘I am quite surprised at how fast the popularity of this frog is rising up’.
A juvenille Synapturanus danta. Photo by Germán Chávez.
