Sex, breeding, copulation.... whatever you want to call it.
Several friends (and more than one website) describe the breeding habits of bullfrogs as that of fishes. Female lays eggs, males give eggs a shot of semen and little froggies, tadpoles, appear.
I pretty sure there is an internal fertilization of the female's eggs; or I have seen pairs in some pretty awkwark positions for no apparent reason.
So experts, what do you know about bullfrog sex?
My sources say that fertilization is external rather than internal.......those awkard positions are likely part of the external fertilization process.
What a subject!
Shorty is absolutely right. The female starts to drop the eggs and the male starts to fertilize them with semen. It happens simultaneously, but is external.
Let me see if I have this picture correct..
The frogs are probably "coupled" somehow. The female is squirting out eggs and the male is fertilizing the eggs as the emerge from her vent.
Correct?
terriffic....a new acronym
PBAV
(Pond Boss amphibian voyeurism)
I love it...you guys have exhuasted every topic there is so now your gonna talk frog sex
I cant wait till JHAP sees this thread
Lord knows what he'll come up with on this one
For the PBAV afflicted, here are some African Bullfrogs doing their thing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXI5nj8qOPg
Thanks Shorty...now I have to clear my web browser history
Brettski, you are not the only one who needs clear their browser history!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcNZn77k1YQ&feature=related
Amphibians are still linked to the water by their need for a fluid medium where the egg and sperm can unite, i.e. external fertilization. That is why toads, tree frogs etc return to ponds to breed each spring. The penis is the liberating development that frees creatures from the need to immerse themselves to reproduce and permits the utilization of habitats far from bodies of water large enough to immerse the reproducing animal. Or at least I like to see it that way, penises get little good pub these days.
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Great dissection of the situation from a guy who knows about anatomy and physiology.
