Frog!
The frog finder said Solomon Island villagers were flown after an encounter “as a human child” as a frog during a hunting expedition. The giant hopper was first discovered in April, but the photos are going viral on social media right now, Daily Mail reported.
“I can’t believe what I was looking for,” said Jimmy Hugo, owner of Sawmill, 35, who stumbled across the strange flycatcher chasing wild pigs at Honiara. He Uploaded a photo of a village child on Facebook The cartoonist holding the critter, which is about half as long as the child is.
The impressive specimen, which was supposedly a Shortland Island webbed frog, measured a 10-inch eye from the muzzle to the butt with a weight of about 2.2 pounds – heavier than a quart of milk.
Jodi Rowley, curator of amphibian and reptile conservation biology at the Australian Museum, told Australian geographic He “never saw that one was big.”
Regarding the frog in the viral photo, he said, “It is quite unusual for him to get into that shape, so it must have been quite old.” While the Shortland Island Frogs are some of the largest in the world, the largest frog species is the Goliath frog, which is found in Cameroon and can grow up to 13 inches long and weigh up to 7.2 pounds.
Size is not the only notable quality of a frog. “We call them ‘Bush Chicken’, because some villages like them more than chicken, but they are hard to catch,” Hugo said. In fact, he only managed to snap this crater as it died.
Thankfully, Curtit’s body did not go waste, as the hunter and his village ate the colossal croaker.
“Hopefully the next time we see one, it will still be alive and we’ll keep it that way,” Hugo said.
Unfortunately, this will likely be increasingly difficult: the species is declining due to habitat degradation.
“I noticed that they don’t occur where they once did in the streams of the Terai,” said Solomon Islands biologist Patrick Picacha. “And interviews with local people showed that the frog population has fallen drastically due to the disturbances of the stream.
“It emphasizes more habitat protection.”
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