Pousada Tarituba - Paraty

Brasil is the country with the highest number of frog species on the world. These animals are generally nocturnal and males sing to females frogs for attracting them at reproduction season. In Pousada Tarituba They can be found near of the small lakes.

Smith frog - Hypsiboas faber
It lives near streams and large permanents ponds. In Atlantic Forest from Argentina to northeastern of Brazil. Males build a nest in bank lake. It is a little pool in mud, which guarantees a security local for tadpoles. Males call for attracting females and the sound seems hammed. Male hugs female and both liberate the gametes together in nest. The eggs form a consisted jelly on surface water. It must not be broken because the eggs would be without oxygen and would die.

Castanet frog - Itapotihyla langsdorffii
Endangered specie! This specie is classified as vulnerable and has risk of extinction in nature at mid time. It is resulted of environment destruction, it fragmented distribution, isolating populations. I. langsdorffii has a high called like castanets. It calls on rain months and more intensify during or after storms. In this period it can be heard also at daytime.

Hypsiboas albomarginatus
Com 5 cm de corpo, seu canto é um grito repetido irregularmente, geralmente em aglomerados de 4 ou 5 indivíduos.

Dendropsophus elegans
It is from the Atlantic Forest of eastern Brazil. It lays its eggs on vegetation above the water, into which the larvae fall and develop.

Sapo Amarelo - Bufo cf crucifer
Bufo é sapo típico, com o corpo coberto por glândulas que conferem à sua pele um aspecto bastante rugoso. Possui um par de glândulas maiores localizadas logo atrás dos olhos, as glândulas paratóides, que não lançam veneno como muitas pessoas imaginam, este é liberado quando a glândula é espremida e o veneno, em pequena quantidade escorre pela pele do animal. Tal veneno causa apenas pequenas irritações cutâneas em pessoas sensíveis.

Frogs

Praia de Tarituba - BR 101 Rodovia Rio-Santos km 538 - Paraty - RJ