From green to brown
The same individual can rapidly change its back colour between green and brown.
Smilisca phaeota
Masked Treefrog
Learning inside the egg
In an experiment, embryos learned an odour that tadpoles preferred after hatching.
A curtain of silt
Tadpoles flick their tails to raise clouds of silt, clouding the water as they hide again.
Two voices, one duet
Two nearby males can alternate their calls so that they sound like a single frog.
Distribution
Records in northwestern Colombia, the Pacific and the Cauca and Magdalena valleys. It also ranges from Honduras to Ecuador.