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Introducing one of the weirdest frog species, complete with a pretty funny scientific name, pipa pipa, Common names: Common surinam toad/suriname toad, star fingered toad

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Habitat: An aquatic species. They live in slow-moving pools in rain forests, whether they be bodies of water or big puddles that have collected over time.

Found in: Peru, Bolivia, Brazil, French Guinea, Columbia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, Suriname (hence the name), Trinidad and Tobago, Venezuela 

Fun fact(s): The suriname toad is unique for reasons besides their strange, flat shape - They also have a different way of parenting from other frogs. The female frog lays clusters of 60 to 100 eggs, and the male then pushes them onto her back, where they stick, and she carries them around until they hatch.

The previously mentioned, and unsubtle, weird shape of them, isn’t just in their flat bodies - they also have unusually far apart eyes for a frog, as well as incredibly long fingers! 

These fingers aren’t just long for no reason. Even though they look kind of useless, they are actually used for grabbing prey, something other frogs don’t tend to do much. 

“the noble and mysterious language of frog”