![]() Many of these frogs can store up to 50% of their body weight as water in their bladders. The true burrowing frogs are superb drought-dodgers, digging deep down into the soil and remaining there for months or even years as the soil bakes solid in the summer sun. Some burrowers, such as the Eastern Banjo Frog ( Limnodynastes dumerilii) or the Western Banjo Frog ( Limnodynastes dorsalis) dig a shallow burrow a few centimetres deep in leaf litter which merely serves as a night-time and cold weather retreat, not a permanent abode. This creates ideal breeding conditions for burrowing frogs.Īround a third of Australian frog species will burrow into the ground for part of the year. Heavy rains can cover vast areas of inland Australia with temporary lakes. If it has been wet, then it has been a good year for burrowing frogs. They can stay there for years until a good soaking of rain softens the ground enough for them to move to the surface to breed.
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