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Male parental care and its adaptive significance in a neotropical frog
(Elsevier: Animal Behaviour, 1984-05)
In the Puerto Rican frog Eleutherodactylus coqui, parental care is performed exclusively by males, and consists of attending the eggs and hatchlings at a terrestrial oviposition site. The two major behavioural components ...
Water balance of terrestrial anuran (Eleutherodactylus Coqui) eggs: importance of parental care
(The Ecological Society of America: Ecology, 1984-02)
The terrestrial eggs of the coqui of Puerto Rico are brooded almost continuously by the male parent from the time of oviposition until the fully metamorphosed hatchlings emerge from the eggs 15-20 d later. The gelatinous ...