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#10: Black Rain frogs lay ‘fake’ eggs to distract predators from their real eggs!?

#10: Black Rain frogs lay ‘fake’ eggs to distract predators from their real eggs!?

Update: 2020-06-04

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Victor has a beautiful new book of amazing animal facts, but fake eggs??! That sounds pretty unbelievable. Join us to hear if it’s true, and find out more about this very, VERY sad little frog. Images reproduced with permission from The Encylcopaedia of Ugly Animals by Sami Bayly, Hachette Australia, 2019.

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#10: Black Rain frogs lay ‘fake’ eggs to distract predators from their real eggs!?

#10: Black Rain frogs lay ‘fake’ eggs to distract predators from their real eggs!?

Hubert Hiemstra