#pignose frog

HE'S VERY BEAUTIFUL TO ME!!!

i love them so much

I'M TOTALLY JOKING CAN NOT KEEP THESE AS PETS. As they are endangered. Poor Jumbas.

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I didn't have much time to work on the challenge today, so this is simply a delightfully spherical Purple/Pignose frog (yes I am now reading the prompt list correctly fnfnf)

Nasikabatrachus sahyadrensis, better known as the purple frog, Indian purple frog, or pignose frog is a species of burrowing frog in the genus Nasikabatrachus which is endemic to the Western Ghats in India. The frog spends most of its life underground near streams, creeks, pools, ponds, and wetlands, surfacing only for a period of 2 weeks during the monsoon season in order to mate. With few field scientists out in the field during the rainy season, the adult form of this species was only discovered and formally scientifically described in October 2003. However the Tadpoles had been described in 1917 by Nelson Annandale and C. R. Narayan Rao and thought to belong to a completely different species. Unlike many other burrowing species of frogs that emerge and feed above the ground typically at night, the purple frog forages for food whilst completely submerged and/ or buried feeding on a variety of termites, grubs, larvae, worms, crustaceans, and aquatic insects. Reaching around 1 to 3.5 inches (2.5 to 9cms) in length and 3.5 to 7 ounces (100 to 200grams) in weight, with males being typically around 1/3rd the length of the females, the purple frog sports a robust, bloated, rounded dorsoventrally flattened body. Their flattened body assists them to cling to submerged rocks and boulders which essentially helps them fight strong currents, allowing them to remain near stream banks where they typically reside. The arms and legs splay out in the standard anuran body form. Purple frogs have a small head with an unusually pointed snout. As the name suggests, adults are typically dark purplish-grey in color. During the monsoon season males emerge to call beside temporary rainwater streams. Females approach and then carry the males on their backs to the egg laying sites which are usually crevices along the fast-flowing streams. Here they will mate with mother purple frogs laying some 3000 eggs. The eggs soon hatch into tadpoles, which are mottled yellow and purplish brown with strong tails, broad heads and oral suckers which help them cling to rocks in the current. After 100 days the tadpoles fully metamorphose.

i rest my case.