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In Australia found new species of frogs with "flashing lights"

Added	Tue, 18/07/2017
Источники	nplus1.ru theherald.com.au
Дата публикации	Fri, 04/11/2016
Версии	Famous creatures

Australian biologists have discovered in the South new species of frogs of Borodavkin, Uperoleia Mahonyi. The representatives of this type on the legs is bright orange stripes. At the approach of a predator, the frog pulls the legs, so that the stripes start "blinking" as flashing beacons. Scientists suggest that such a maneuver scares the attacker wins and the frog time to escape. A new study of the species was published in Zootaxa.

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