Pebble Toad’s Rock & Roll Life (video too)
When confronted by a predator, some animals fight, others run while a few hide, hoping not to be noticed.
The pebble toad of Venezuela does something altogether different: it curls up like a ball and throws itself down the side of a mountain.
By doing so, the tiny creature bounces down the rocks just like a rubber ball.
This extraordinary tumbling behaviour has been filmed in slow motion by a BBC crew for the natural history programme Life.
The pebble toad (Oreophrynella niger) is tiny, measuring just a few centimetres long.
It lives on the top of a type of mountain known as a tepui, which occur across the Guiana Highlands in South America.
Kirtland Peterson
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- 10/15/2009 / 7:40 am
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