Wildlife
Smoky jungle frogs are voracious feeders, eating almost anything they can catch in an ambush. Their tadpoles are pretty vicious too. Only a small number of eggs laid will hatch in the large foam nest. The rest remain as food for the cannabalistic tadpoles. If feeling threatened, the smoky jungle frogs inflates itself like a balloon, rising up on all four legs and emitting a high-pitched scream. If they are not too big to be swallowed, their noxious skin toxins might deter predators. They are one of the largest frog species, found in South America's tropical swamps and marshes.
Scientific name: Leptodactylus pentadactylus
Rank: Species
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Singing Frog
Steve Backshall finds a frog with a big mouth and an impressive turn of speed.
Steve Backshall finds a frog with a big mouth and an impressive turn of speed.
The Smoky jungle frog can be found in a number of locations including: Amazon Rainforest, South America. Find out more about these places and what else lives there.
The following habitats are found across the Smoky jungle frog distribution range. Find out more about these environments, what it takes to live there and what else inhabits them.
Discover what these behaviours are and how different plants and animals use them.
Additional data source: Animal Diversity Web
Least Concern
Population trend: Stable
Year assessed: 2008
Classified by: IUCN 3.1
The Smokey Jungle Frog or Smoky Jungle Frog (Leptodactylus pentadactylus) is a species frog in the Leptodactylidae family. Its local Spanish name is sapo-toro comun (roughly, "common bullfrog"). It is found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Panama, Peru, and Suriname. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical swamps, subtropical or tropical moist montane forests, rivers, freshwater marshes, intermittent freshwater marches, and aquaculture ponds.
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Lakes and ponds
Marsh
Rivers and streams
Swamp
Tropical dry forest
Rainforest
Temporary pools
Paternal care
Predation defence
Camouflage
Carnivorous
Acoustic communication
Adapted to jumping
Metamorphosis
Nocturnal
Egg layer
Poisonous
Predator