National Geographic:
“In the mountainous forests of New Guinea, scientists have described a new kind of tree frog whose males sport a single, fleshy spike on their nose. Ladies and gentlemen, meet the northern Pinocchio frog. Paul Oliver, a herpetologist at the Queensland Museum and Griffith University in Australia, actually discovered these curious-looking amphibians on a field expedition back in 2008, while he and his crew were hiding from the rain in Indonesia’s Foja Mountains. He happened to look over and spot the mottled green, brown, and yellow frog sitting atop a bag of rice. ‘You could say it found us, rather than we found it,’ says Oliver… Now, Oliver and his colleagues are hard at work trying to figure out what that adorable little schnozzes are for. ‘What is particularly striking is that it is erectile,’ Oliver says in an email. ‘At times it sticks out quite straight, while at other times it droops downward.’”
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".........‘What is particularly striking is that it is erectile,’ Oliver says in an email. ‘At times it sticks out quite straight, while at other times it droops downward.’............."
OMG - RIBIT - ANY OTHER BODY PARTS THAT DO THIS?
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