Here you can see easily the ambusher Crab spider on the Cyclamen flowers. I think it is Thomisus onustus but I am not sure its exact id. Hoping that you like this shot too!.
When they reach into water, the male Green toad grasp the female around the body behind the arms (axillar amplexus) and then females are laid long strings of blackish-small eggs (1.2 mm diameter) ordered in two longitudinal rows. During this process males pour out the male gametes on eggs to fertilize them (external fertilization). In this shot you can see the egg strings.
Females sometimes lay small clumps of spawn relatively out of the lake. In the viewpoint of their conservation, we have to transport them into the lake to increase their breeding success.
I am sure that this is not good shot but I want to show you a biger love ball in Taurus frog.
Sory for this bad image. In this shot you can see that 4 males pile onto a single female.
Females and males comes to a specialised area, “the breedeng site” during their breeding season to continue their generations.You can see a female waiting for a male in the breeding site to create a love dance:)
The playing possum [it is also known as "unken-reflex"] behaviour is also exhibited by males:). In this shot you can see the nuptial pads (Callus) on the fore extremities which they serve in grasping the female around the body behind the arms during the amplexus, i.e. love dance:)
Here is one of the defensive behaviours of a female Taurus Frog which has typically warted soft skin, “the dead mimicry, ie., playing possum” [it is also known as "unken-reflex"].
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