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When you see this amphibian you will surely think that it has been intentionally run over, the truth is that its flat aspect is totally normal and its anatomical form is a mystery, I am talking about the famous Surinam toad, so don't hesitate to look twice at each image because it is not a deception, we are going to know some of its main characteristics with me.

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As its name indicates this strange toad is located in South America in a country called Suriname that is the border with Guyana once English territory, its triangular head, and the flattened body have given it fame in its country and known by different scientists who have been captivated by its special shape.

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Most toads commonly have a position where they use their forelegs to sit, but the Surinamese toad adopts a position as if it were resting.
Another of its most notable characteristics is its mating, which is considered a spectacle, where the female performs as a kind of ritual dance, then the wonder of life makes fertilize the eggs that will be arranged on his back as if it were a kind of natural incubator, and in that same place is that after a lapse of time are expelled.

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This is a species that belongs to the genus pipe and really is extremely unusual and is practically impossible not to recognize it because only when you see its flattened body you will realize that you are in the presence of this magnificent toad.

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Its habitat is usually neighborhoods where it spends most of the time and is a perfect place not to be found by predators, thanks to its brown color in different shades can be camouflaged to perfection in these places without hardly being detected.

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Their hind legs do not fulfill such an important function although they do not stop being muscular as to swim like other similar amphibians, it is their front legs that they really use to survive, their legs are elongated and have nerve endings so sensitive that they can detect the food that easily carries to their mouth, and they have to use their front legs since they do not have a tongue, one of the most indispensable organs in other species that have long tongues, flexible and with a sticky saliva that they use to catch insects.

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His lifestyle as I said is aquatic par excellence, can spend up to 1 hour underwater without breathing dedicated to looking for food, and its color plus the color of the puddles helps him to camouflage, can avoid predators thanks to their eyes that are located in the back of his head, with this achieve a panoramic control of the area where they are able to sneak in time if they feel the threat of a predator.

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But what really caught my attention beyond its flattened appearance is the incredible way in which they mate and how the female breeds the eggs. It all starts in the rainy season when the male emits loud sounds to attract the female who performs a lot of pirouettes, let's say as a kind of dance before the amplexus that can last up to 12 hours, hahaha that fiery are these toads, is when they are left back to back and finishing the male is detached leaving the eggs perfectly arranged in cavities that has the female very padded to maintain about 10 or more eggs, but it is not all during this rainy period the male can repeat the sexual act many times, so each female can get to place the amazing sum of 100 eggs per season. Nothing more for an animal that is in danger of extinction.

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This incredible toad is under threat of disappearing as a result of human interaction, due to intense deforestation in the tropical forests of Suriname. Although there have been cases that for its strange appearance has decided to trade illegally as an exotic pet.