Goliah Frogs Can Move Stones That Are Half Their Weight

Goliah Frog. Image courtesy of Ryan Somma, CC BY-SA 2.0.




Joel Kontinen

Goliath frogs build their own nursery ponds. “They can move stones that are half their weight.”

The 3.3 kilograms (7.3-lb) Goliath frog lives in Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea, and it can move stones that are 2 kilograms (4.4 lbs) in weight.

It's likely that the male frogs, which are more than 1.1 feet (34 centimeters) long, use "their huge and very muscular hind legs" to move the stones", Mark-Oliver Rödel, curator of herpetology at the Natural History Museum in Berlin says.

The study was the study was published in the Journal of Natural History.

It seems that these frogs rely on what the Book of Genesis says after its kind.


Source:

Geggel, Laura. World's Largest Frogs Can Move Rocks Half Their Weight ... for Their Wee Pollywogs. Live Science (10.8.).