Three places frogs carry their eggs

Wrapped around legs, inside a pouch, beneath the skin. Three amphibian parents carry their nurseries with them.

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A pond is only one kind of nursery.
Some amphibian parents carry their developing eggs with them.
Around Dad’s legs.
The male midwife toad carries egg strings until the tadpoles are ready for water.
Inside Mum’s back pouch.
The horned marsupial frog broods eggs in a pouch; young emerge as froglets.
Beneath Mum’s skin.
Surinam toad eggs settle into chambers in her back. Tiny toads emerge later.
Three nurseries. Three different routes.
Egg strings, a brood pouch, skin chambers: each parent carries the next generation.

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