Chapter 8 Web Links

Convergent evolution of foot-flagging behavior by streamside frogs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAmMrdF6ycQ

Courtship by the smooth newt (Lissotriton vulgaris)
http://www.arkive.org/smooth-newt/triturus-vulgaris/video-09a.html
The male is shown fanning pheromones to the female and depositing a spermatophore that she picks up with her cloacal lips.

Tailwalk and spermatophore transfer by the red-legged salamander (Plethodon shermani)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UIpOcmejvI

Male Japanese giant salamanders
http://www.arkive.org/japanese-giant-salamander/andrias-japonicus/video-12a
A resident male, guarding eggs in a nest, fights an intruding male.

Male midwife toad (Alytes muletensis) carrying eggs
http://www.arkive.org/mallorcan-midwife-toad/alytes-muletensis/video-00.html

Reproductive behavior of the Kumbara night frog (Nyctibatrachus kumbara)
http://www.gururaja  kv.net
This three-part series shows the male’s advertisement behavior, amplexus, and egg deposition.

A Darwin’s frog (Rhinodema sp.) releasing young from his vocal sac
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAF5N-HwgOc

Birth of Kaup’s caecilian (Potomotyphlus kaupii)
http://www.zooborns.com/zooborns/caecilian

Birth of Suriname toads (Pipa pipa)
http://www.arkive.org/suriname-toad/pipa-pipa/video-00.html
Fully metamorphosed froglets are emerging from depressions on the mother’s back.

A female chicken frog (Leptodactylus fallax) feeding unfertilized eggs to tadpoles
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EI43SgzzAbk

Tadpole transport and feeding by a female strawberry poison frog (Oophaga pumilio)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SispCYjUTE

Neotenic tiger salamanders (Ambystoma tigrinum)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asOCVEAwsCA
Excellent images of the salamanders, although the narration is not entirely accurate

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