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Busy laying eggs

culms hollow

Mountain Pastures. Gp walk 14.

Sadly deceased! I am really not sure of the ID.

Cruised and taken off the road

Eggs

A few drops of rain during severe drought was enough to get termites to emerge and this frog camped out beside them in the middle of the path filling up.

Found in our wild garden, on old sand dunes. It's been decades since we found a frog, but we hear them on drizzly days in the dense thicket. Approx 20 -30mm.

For more images https://www.nicolauecology.com/lizards/2022/12/10/tetradactylus-fitzsimonsi

with Enviro-Insight and HCV Africa

Two marbled leaf-toed geckos feeding on a moth

with P&T Rebelo

Tadpole on rock film

Eggs among moss

Cacosternum thorini - Thorin’s Caco. From Hogsback, Eastern Cape. https://www.tyroneping.co.za/cacosternum-thorini-thorins-caco/

Population 3, higher elevation

A whole bunch were bouncing on top of the soil after heavy rain. Bright yellow belies, all rescued and put in a pond.

Large (approx 7cm) tadpole in flowing stream above Grey mares tail waterfall in the Karkloof.

Found indoors sleeping on a glass window. Releases by planted waterbody outside.

Afrixalus knysnae
Knysna Leaf-folding Frog. From Grootrivier Pass, Western Cape. https://www.tyroneping.co.za/amphibians-of-southern-africa/afrixalus-knysnae-knysna-leaf-folding-frog/

Sound of this species up to now not yet recorded, according to Channing and Rödel (2019)

With female S. capensis.