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Caption: "FLYING FROG". From a drawing by the author. Drawn on wood by Keulemans.

Drawing of a Flying Frog from Alfred Russel Wallace's book The Malay Archipelago. The newer version is from Papua Web: The Malay Archipelago (The Indo-Malay Islands)

See also: Image:Haeckel Batrachia.jpg, which uses this illustration and others of frogs.

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One of the most curious and interesting reptiles which I met with in Borneo was a large tree-frog, which was brought me by one of the Chinese workmen. He assured me that he had seen it come down in a slanting direction from a high tree, as if it flew. On examining it, I found the toes very long and fully webbed to their very extremity, so that when expanded they offered a surface much larger than the body. The forelegs were also bordered by a membrane, and the body was capable of considerable inflation. The back and limbs were of a very deep shining green color, the under-surface and the inner toes yellow, while the webs were black, rayed with yellow. The body was about four inches long, while the webs of each hind foot, when fully expanded, covered a surface of four square inches, and the webs of all the feet together about twelve square inches. As the extremities of the toes have dilated discs for adhesion, showing the creature to be a true tree frog, it is difficult to imagine that this immense membrane of the toes can be for the purpose of swimming only, and the account of the Chinese man, that it flew down from the tree, becomes more credible. This is, I believe, the first instance known of a "flying frog," and it is very interesting to Darwinian as showing that the variability of the toes which have been already modified for purposes of swimming and adhesive climbing, have been taken advantage of to enable an allied species to pass through the air like the flying lizard. It would appear to be a new species of the genus Rhacophorus, which consists of several frogs of a much smaller size than this, and having the webs of the toes less developed. They jump from tree to tree and use their webbed feet to glide.

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gjeldande16. august 2008 kl. 09:28Miniatyrbilete av versjonen frå 16. august 2008 kl. 09:281 070 × 1 043 (880 KB)Richard001New version from http://www.papuaweb.org/dlib/bk/wallace/04.jpg
3. januar 2007 kl. 06:14Miniatyrbilete av versjonen frå 3. januar 2007 kl. 06:14352 × 355 (40 KB)RcashmanDrawing of a Flying Frog from Wallace's book The Malay Archipelago.

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