The Archive · 1925

Frogs and Snakes

Leaving the mammals and coming to other classes of animals, we find adaptations to flight of large tree frogs common to South China, the Malay region, India and Madagascar. In these the toes have become elongated and strongly webbed, so that the frog may use them us wings in volplaning from tone tree to another. These frogs fare expert climbers, the tips of their toes being provided with pads which act as suckers. When the toes are spread out, the feet offer a larger surface than the rest of the body.

'A certain species of snake is said to volplane, eye-witnesses declaring that, twill launch itself from a tree and plane away like a dart. It is capable of fattening its body and drawing in its under sid which helps it in its remarket

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