Hello everyone since it is Tuesday it is freaky creature day and today’s creature is the Surinam Toad.
The common Surinam toad or star-fingered toad is a purely aquatic species of frog in the family Pipidae with a widespread distribution in South America.
It looks like a leaf or flat rock; it is also known as a star-fingered toad due to the tiny star on the tip of each four fingers on its front legs.
It will lay flat on the riverbed with its arms outstretched and uses them to find food, if something brushes up against the stars it sucks it up.
The species is known for incubating its eggs in honeycombed chambers in the skin of the mother’s back, releasing fully formed froglets after a period of 4–5 months. Once fully formed they pop free and head for the water’s surface to breathe. The mum then sheds its skin ready for the next breeding season.
This was the last creature in my freaky creature book, so I will have to see what else I can find I do have one on dangerous spiders but I’m not sure about that.
Jo-AnneRamplings 
Dearest Jo-Ann,
Wow, the mum carries those incubated eggs in her honeycomb chambers on her back till they are froglets! Then shedding her skin for another breeding season.
Nature can be fascinating!
Hugs,
Mariette
Yeah so fascinating, seems she lives to breed if once the eggs are off her she sheds her skin ready for the next batch.
Non–stop!