The Surinam Toad.
! The Surinam toad, a recent addition to the London Zoological Gar dens, is remarkable for the strange Manner in which it reproduces its young. When the eggs are laid the male takes them in his hands and places them on the back of the femal6.whftre4b.ey are gradually enveloped by a membranous skin. In this situation the young are hatched out. bat they do not emerge from the membranous covering in their tadpole iState, bat remain until they na#e attained their limbs. When they do extricate themselves, their legs and arms Roving about in all dir.eofcionß> on their mother's back, give ■ a veryf extraordinary appearance, #■•;..;;:
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Manawatu Herald, 17 January 1895, Page 3
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107The Surinam Toad. Manawatu Herald, 17 January 1895, Page 3
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