Climbing Mantella
Scientific name: Mantella laevigata
Habitat: tropical rainforests, particularly bamboo forests
Diet: ants, flies, termites
Life span: 3-6 years (up to 10 years in captivity)
Young: 1 egg/clutch
Size: 2.5-3 cm (1-1.2 inches)
Climbing mantellas are unique among the mantella frogs for two reasons. First, climbing mantellas are the only semi-arboreal mantellas, they have feet with big, round, sticky toes, specialized for climbing, not swimming! Secondly, unlike other mantellas, who lay clutches of eggs in the leaf litter, climbing mantellas lay eggs singly, and in tree holes above the forest floor. Females then return to these tree holes to feed their young (tadpoles) unfertilized eggs.
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Climbing mantella on Wikipedia
Climbing mantella on the IUCN Red List
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