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Three places frogs carry their eggs
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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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