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Motorbike/Western
Bell/Western Green Tree frog |
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Motorbike/Western
Bell/Western Green Tree frog |
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Please take the time to see these photographs larger by clicking on them. But please do not copy the photographs. Yes this is called the motorbike frog as you can hear it sounds like a motorbike (courtesy of Frogwatch). |
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Bibra Lake November 21 This is a large frog that grows over 3 years. It wont make it's call until it has reached three years old. |
Forrestdale Lake June 12 This is a fairly active frog. They are willing to be handled and seem to enjoy the warmth of the hand and will often not leave, clinging on with a strong grip.
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This frog was brought to me from Toodyay. Check it out as it eats a live cockroach. |
This is the same frog as the one on the left. It would sit in the plants. Here you can see the eye's pupil is vertical. |
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They are mostly nocturnal.
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What does this frog eat? This frog uses it's long broad tongue and mouth to catch food. It leaps for it's tucker too.
Frogs swallow their prey whole they don't chew their food. In the photo above the cockroach was too big for the frog and it used its front feet to push the cockroach in. When cockroaches that are too big the frog, they will spit out.
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Check out the feet. This is why this frog can climb. Notice how there is webbing between the toes and pads or round discs on the tips of the five toes and fingers. Burrowing frogs do not have these discs or pads their toes are pointed so they can dig. |
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These are
the front feet of a motorbike frog found dead at Porongurup National
Park in November. Below is the back foot.
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This is a well fed Motorbike frog in the Western Australian Museum which is on display at the Discovery Centre. (Please ring and check before making a special trip to the Museum). Male Motorbike frogs are approx 53-64mm in length from snout to vent and females are larger approx 65-74mm in length.
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This froggy pictured here was seen on the road approx 20metres from water at Lane Pool Reserve south of Dwellingup in February.
Here you can see a close-up of the frogs skin and colourings. Click Here;To see our short video of this large frog. The sound in the background is my car motor not the frog.
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Check out his large ear just beside the eye. Motorbike frogs can change the colour intensity of their markings due to where they live. This large motorbike frog was found hopping off the road in Wooroloo near Chidlow off the Great Eastern Hwy in May. You can see it has browner markings due to living in leaf litter. |
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This motorbike frog is much greener in its markings due to it living on green plants around the lakes edge. This photograph was taken at Forestdale lake Perth in June. It was the first motorbike frog I saw for this season. |
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And this Motorbike frog is nearly black as it blends in with the pond in my yard. |
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«««««This Motorbike frog was alive in a water catchment area with Slender Tree frogs at Porongurup picnic area in November.
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This is one of the many Motorbikes I have seen in Beckenham, Perth. Here there are drain catchments and the soil is heavy clay. This one was seen in September.»»»»»»»» |
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Update; This Motorbike frog was out during the day beside the Warren River in Pemberton, South West in July
Warren River Pemberton.»»»»»» |
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Update; This gorgeous vivid green Motorbike frog was seen in Margaret River at night in January about 130meters from a water catchment, none were calling.
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Can you see how raised their eyes are on top of their heads! This motorbike frog was also seen at Margaret River in January. |
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Motorbike frogs live around permanent water and will either climb or hide beneath bark and logs, plants and trees. They
have also been seen or heard at; Text "Frogs Of Western Australia" by M J Tyler, L A Smith, R E Johnstone. |
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