Has anyone reevaluated these species hearing since we learned about the entirely different anatomy that it's used for hearing in amphibians, fish and reptiles? And even to some extent mammals although they're still investigating how much of a role it plays?
🐸1: *off-key serenading* 🐸2: “that’s the sexiest lip-syncing I’ve ever seen. I better go over there and let them know I’m dtf” *yeets self in that general direction and hopes for the best*
@@poochy2479 alright I’ll start sketching some designs, I’ll let you know if I make something decent (which I probably won’t because I lose motivation so quick)
I can’t resist grinning like an idiot at all the clips of them rag dolling themselves through the air like someone messing around in GMod, the best one has to be the one that landed on its back like, “Help! I’ve fallen and I can’t get up!”
I love it’s tiny hand nub, Poor things. Evolution puts them through so much already, then makes them have one little finger like a bad ceramics project that fell apart in the kiln
There's something deeply romantic about singing a love song that you will never hear. It's an act of giving without any care for receiving, or even for your gift being received, and I find that weirdly touching.
I wonder though, because it's possible to hear directly through the bones of the skull. Perhaps their ears are underdeveloped but unnecessary for communication and they hear anyways. Have we hooked one up to check their brainwaves for stimulation to sound?
I dunno, the motion of the landing looks to me like behavior adapted to compensate for lack of control--they may not have the awareness but they have also adapted to no longer need it. Hatching eggs straight into frogs without requiring a tadpole stage also grants advantages, while it's warning coloration has been put to double use for enabling communication. It seems that the only thing it's bad at is being a normal frog, but it is quite good at being itself.
My speculation is that the toadlets live on the ground full of litter so launching yourself into the air then dropping into some random pile of leaves motionless isn't particularly detrimental to survival, if not beneficial. Therefore the toadlets with weak inner ears (the cause of lackluster landing) are not selected against and are able to mate and produce offspring with equally weak inner ears.
Fun how the Toadlets are so small, they were given a diminutive name. In German the Squirrel and the Bunny also have a diminutive name "Eichhörnchen" and "Kaninchen" respectively. You'd may think that those name suggest there are larger animals called "Eichhorn" and "Kanin", but the diminutive here is more to "cute-ify" their names, because those animals are cute.
I heard that because the "ito" suffix indicate something is tiny in Spanish, the name mosquito must suggest that there are giant version of the insect.
i didn't know pumpkin toadlets existed before this video but i can now say i love every single one of them so much. yes they may get a C- in evolution but they get an A+ in my heart
Thank you so much for explaining the truth of evolutions “good enough” nature. People hear “survival of the fittest” and they interpret it as “only the best of the best deserve to live”
It's a beautiful theory but most of the time, it is indeed the fittest. Competition is usually high, and the case of those frogs is more like an exception. Even if an animal is bad at something (like the mentioned humans) - they are extremely good at something else, to compensate. Btw, producing ready-made frogs instead of eggs is a huge advantage. Maybe it allowed them to survive with no ears or whatever.
@@erynn9968 Cute idea, but opinions are not facts. The animal kingdom doesnt follow some Social Darwinism about "only the best survive". Anything that can live ling enough to reproduce is good enough. It's why cockroaches and flies, things that most people don't consider impressive, end up on every continent with no end in sight.
THIS! let's not forget how toxic this translates to a capitalist society. everyone is needed in the system/ecosystem and have their own roles! not everyone need to be ceos, leaders, top dough, or in this case, A+ rated predators 👍sometimes it's okay to be a C. surviving and doing your part is enough than to have a grandeur expectation of your standing and ability
So they're tiny toadlets. But they're bad at it so they're terrible tiny toadlets. They also don't have a lot of dexterity, so they are terrible teetering tiny toadlets. Unfortunately for predators, they're also poisonous. Making them terrible teetering tiny toxic toadlets. Fortunately for predators they warn them by being bright orange, making them terrible teetering tiny toxic tangerine toadlets.
In fact, there's a reason why their jumps are so catastrophic: they jump mainly to avoid danger, so they jump and play dead in mid-air. It's also why they don't get up immediately after landing - they play dead to avoid danger. Thanks for making a video about this frog, it's a fascinating frog!
I feel like this frog is my spirit animal. It can breathe, poop and do the horizontal tango occasionally…and that’s about it. But it’s ok. I need to remember that if the pumpkin froglet is good enough…than so am I. Pretty inspirational actually.
Their jump is a nice allegory for how the usual day goes. After waking up you have the best intentions and are motiviated, but once the day started it is a guess how it ends. Sometimes everything works out and you land on your feet, and sometimes you corkscrew face first into the ground.
@@idkwhatnametouse4392 ummmm.... nah, afraid not. The shape 'square' is defined as having sides of equal length. As soon as the sides aren't equal, it's not a square. While the right-angles of a rectangle are sometimes called "square angles", the shape is never classified as "a square". Thumbs on the other hand (no pun intended) are classified as one of your five fingers. So it is accurate and correct to call thumbs 'fingers', but the other four fingers are never called 'thumbs', because thumbs are an opposable digit.
The frog when they jump be like: "I believe I can fly-" *"NOPE NO I DON'T"* Those pumpkin toadlets actually look similar to the golden mantella in Madagascar. I wished Mantellas were talked about more often. When people think of poisonous frogs, you automatically think of the poison dart frogs of Central and South America. But there is another type of frog outside of Latin America that has bright colors to warn predators of its poison, and gets their poison from their food, and that's where the Mantella comes in. In fact, the poison dart frogs are so famous, when the Mantellas were discovered in 1866, they were automatically placed in the Dendrobates genus. Didn't take until 1882 for them to be given their own genus, and eventually their own family Mantellidae.
i hate this naming thing because here in brazil "toad" translates to "rã" and "frog" into "sapo", rã is the moist skin and long legs while sapo is the one with rough skin and short legs. basicaly, the names are switched for no reason
OMG that's so cool! I made the figures of the inner ears!!! And am on the paper! I'm so excited to see them featured on a platform that reaches so many people!!!
@@Totalinternalreflection Pumpkins are associated with fall, and carving faces into pumpkins is a Halloween tradition. These are frogs are called Pumpkin Toadlets
I mean, they survive because they are toxic. They say that it’s weird they are still alive considering that they can’t land their jumps and can’t even hear each other’s mating calls, but then they mention off-handedly that they are highly toxic and that predators avoid them. That’s probably the primary reason they are still around!
This is probably the perfect video for me rn, somehow got stuck in the hospital for at least two days following a wisdom tooth surgery and I needed something to distract me.
Oh my god, how do I get like six of those pins? How do I get them as earrings and a necklace? How do I get a patch for my jacket? I want to surround myself with pumpkin spice toadlets.
The pumpkin toadlet pins are long gone, but you can find a wonderful, signed, limited edition art print by Emily Graslie right here: store.dftba.com/collections/bizarrebeasts/products/emily-graslie-print
Can never really seem to stick the landing, and constantly trying to find love but hearing none in return? I think I just found the perfect spirit animal for me!
I was just listening to this, and when she described how they jumped, I just thought of them ragdolling in midair. I could even hear the gmod thumping.
They're doing their best and I love them Edit: ok so, maybe they aren't trying their whole entire best. BUT! They're cute little boops of mess and I love them. Also, they are a whole, entire vibe
This is a great example that demonstrates the intelligent design fallacy. This is precisely what we’d expect from a “just good enough” natural selection process.
Another genus' male frog another genus: Come to me, baby Another genus' female frog: Yes, handsome Male pumpkin toadlet: *GLOW* Female pumpkin toadlet: Wow, so romantic They're so small, we didn't discover the majority of them until the 21st century! Sadly, because most species of these have tiny ranges, they're seriously threatened. Doesn't help that a fungus has caused declines in at least *501* amphibian species
@@erynn9968 what Avery said is probably true. There may be more species of fluorescent frogs, but they might go extinct before we can ever discover them.
The pumpkin toadlet pins are long gone, but you can get a glittery pumpkin toadlet sticker right now! store.dftba.com/collections/bizarrebeasts/products/bizarre-beasts-sticker-pack-vol-4
Losing my mind at their name being brachycephalus bc everything from their thoughtless round eyes to general incompetence at moving and making noises is exactly like my brachycephalic (rescue) Persian cat 🥹
There is a whole family of frogs, Ascaphidae, that lack external ears. One theory is that they "hear" the mating call through vibrations in the ground.
Came across this video with my boyfriend and we both saw the title and said “me” at the exact same time We are now roleplaying mostly deaf frogs who jump weird
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Has anyone reevaluated these species hearing since we learned about the entirely different anatomy that it's used for hearing in amphibians, fish and reptiles? And even to some extent mammals although they're still investigating how much of a role it plays?
I love that they jump, and just give up in the air...lol
🫢
tight!? they dont even try! lol
"I will JUMMMmmppppp.....oh, forget it!" plop!
They jump and are immediately like "this was a bad idea"
They just go "I don't wanna do this no more" mid-air
Every jump is a leap of faith lol
🐸1: *off-key serenading*
🐸2: “that’s the sexiest lip-syncing I’ve ever seen. I better go over there and let them know I’m dtf” *yeets self in that general direction and hopes for the best*
You summed up their entire existence.
The frog is very good in one thing: being cute. They are adorable.
Therefore their chances of survival have increased by 40%. Humans will fight to preserve them.
Yay for charismatic mini fauna!
I was your 1000th like. It was very satisfying to see 999 and boop it up to 1000.
@@VechsDavion didn’t even know I had so much likes. Thanks for noticing me.😀
Do they only have two fingers per limb??
They're doing their best and that's all we can ask of them.
The frog's mom: "Trying your best?!... Well you NEED to try HARDER!"
But what if they just want to be lazy?
Somebody needs to make a pumpkin frog simulator just for all the jumping shenanigans.
lol I have no game building experience, but I want to do that now.
Those wee plastic frogs you can push down and make jump are close
The Qwop Frog
Stuntman Pumpkan!
If you've never played "Amazing Frog?" it is essentially that +
This little guy needs to be a pokemon. Give it one of those gimmick moves where it misses nearly all the time but if it hits it does a lot of damage.
just give it the hustle ability, that boosts its power and lowers accuracy for all its moves
@@poochy2479 oh my gosh yes, I might just have to design one myself, any ideas for typing?
@@childeofepickness honestly the funniest option would probably be to make it part flying lol
@@poochy2479 alright I’ll start sketching some designs, I’ll let you know if I make something decent (which I probably won’t because I lose motivation so quick)
@@childeofepickness’d recommend Poison Flying since they’re poisonous, but do funny jumps 💀
I can’t resist grinning like an idiot at all the clips of them rag dolling themselves through the air like someone messing around in GMod, the best one has to be the one that landed on its back like, “Help! I’ve fallen and I can’t get up!”
Hehe funi ragdoll
i had to keep rewinding because i couldn't tell if it was a simulation at first
@TurboGamer YEET
@TurboGamer YEET
@TurboGamer YEET
I love it’s tiny hand nub, Poor things. Evolution puts them through so much already, then makes them have one little finger like a bad ceramics project that fell apart in the kiln
can not believe even bizarre beasts has succumbed to the fall limited edition pumpkin spice
Who needs Starbucks when you can just lick the frog?
XD I mean, some folks just can't resist it...
Lmao 😄😄😄
@@genericname2747 my first thought was of licking the frogs lol
🤣
There's something deeply romantic about singing a love song that you will never hear. It's an act of giving without any care for receiving, or even for your gift being received, and I find that weirdly touching.
Tiny, piano-less Beethovens.
I wonder though, because it's possible to hear directly through the bones of the skull. Perhaps their ears are underdeveloped but unnecessary for communication and they hear anyways. Have we hooked one up to check their brainwaves for stimulation to sound?
@@ServantofBaal Good thought.
😂😂😂
@@ServantofBaal well now I must know.
Their ears are too small to hear the songs they are singing!
I love nature for making that sentence real. Also I would die for them.
Same Will, same!🤗
I Stan and defend pumpkin toadlets
I mean if you eat them you will surely die
I love the frog basically ragdolled immediately after they jump
I dunno, the motion of the landing looks to me like behavior adapted to compensate for lack of control--they may not have the awareness but they have also adapted to no longer need it. Hatching eggs straight into frogs without requiring a tadpole stage also grants advantages, while it's warning coloration has been put to double use for enabling communication.
It seems that the only thing it's bad at is being a normal frog, but it is quite good at being itself.
That last sentence was actually beautifully put
Makes me feel like I have hope. I may not be good at fitting into society but I am pretty good at being myself.
@@MidniteSpectre we believe in you and adorable toadlet x3
My speculation is that the toadlets live on the ground full of litter so launching yourself into the air then dropping into some random pile of leaves motionless isn't particularly detrimental to survival, if not beneficial. Therefore the toadlets with weak inner ears (the cause of lackluster landing) are not selected against and are able to mate and produce offspring with equally weak inner ears.
@@OrdinaryEXP I hadn't visualized the fact that they're jumping around on piles of leaves. They're so impossibly cute I could die oh my goddd
If I had discovered them, they would be called Buttered Toast Toadlets. Because they mostly land upside down!
Very funny. Maybe Murphy's Buttered Toadlets?
Fun how the Toadlets are so small, they were given a diminutive name.
In German the Squirrel and the Bunny also have a diminutive name "Eichhörnchen" and "Kaninchen" respectively. You'd may think that those name suggest there are larger animals called "Eichhorn" and "Kanin", but the diminutive here is more to "cute-ify" their names, because those animals are cute.
It would be funny if they discovered extinct megafauna sized squirrels and bunnies and retconned those names to them.
kawaii!
Mentions the Erdmännelchen 😄 How would an Erdmann might look?
@@krzysztofczarnecki8238
Behold, a giant extinct rabbit: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuralagus
I heard that because the "ito" suffix indicate something is tiny in Spanish, the name mosquito must suggest that there are giant version of the insect.
The fact the frog even tries to jump even tho it fails is amusing to me XD
i didn't know pumpkin toadlets existed before this video but i can now say i love every single one of them so much. yes they may get a C- in evolution but they get an A+ in my heart
i am in TEARS watching these little guys jump and not so gracefully tumble through the air
Thank you so much for explaining the truth of evolutions “good enough” nature. People hear “survival of the fittest” and they interpret it as “only the best of the best deserve to live”
It's sometimes a low bar, or minimal competition for the goal of eating literal poop, that is a win for some ridiculous creatures xD
It's a beautiful theory but most of the time, it is indeed the fittest. Competition is usually high, and the case of those frogs is more like an exception. Even if an animal is bad at something (like the mentioned humans) - they are extremely good at something else, to compensate. Btw, producing ready-made frogs instead of eggs is a huge advantage. Maybe it allowed them to survive with no ears or whatever.
@@erynn9968 Cute idea, but opinions are not facts. The animal kingdom doesnt follow some Social Darwinism about "only the best survive". Anything that can live ling enough to reproduce is good enough. It's why cockroaches and flies, things that most people don't consider impressive, end up on every continent with no end in sight.
THIS! let's not forget how toxic this translates to a capitalist society. everyone is needed in the system/ecosystem and have their own roles! not everyone need to be ceos, leaders, top dough, or in this case, A+ rated predators 👍sometimes it's okay to be a C. surviving and doing your part is enough than to have a grandeur expectation of your standing and ability
@@peachbooks3199
>a very informative and cute video about a frog species
>this person "CAPITALIST SOCIETY!!!!!"
I love that part of their scientific name is Pitanga, a tiny fruit the same size and color of the frogs 🥺🥺
So they're tiny toadlets. But they're bad at it so they're terrible tiny toadlets. They also don't have a lot of dexterity, so they are terrible teetering tiny toadlets. Unfortunately for predators, they're also poisonous. Making them terrible teetering tiny toxic toadlets. Fortunately for predators they warn them by being bright orange, making them terrible teetering tiny toxic tangerine toadlets.
nice alliteration
In fact, there's a reason why their jumps are so catastrophic: they jump mainly to avoid danger, so they jump and play dead in mid-air. It's also why they don't get up immediately after landing - they play dead to avoid danger.
Thanks for making a video about this frog, it's a fascinating frog!
3:25 I love how he just gives up and lies there 😂
He be like: 🥲
I feel like this frog is my spirit animal. It can breathe, poop and do the horizontal tango occasionally…and that’s about it. But it’s ok. I need to remember that if the pumpkin froglet is good enough…than so am I. Pretty inspirational actually.
omg the clip of them just completely bonking their landings 😭 Thanks for highlighting these tiny lil frogs!
Their jump is a nice allegory for how the usual day goes.
After waking up you have the best intentions and are motiviated, but once the day started it is a guess how it ends. Sometimes everything works out and you land on your feet, and sometimes you corkscrew face first into the ground.
Finally. An animal I can relate to... and on my birthday too!
Happy birthday!
Happy birthday!!!
Happy Birthday! May all your toadlets be pumpkin!
Happy Birthday 🎂
Happy birthday!
Awwww whichever scientist named them "pumpkin toadlets" must've thought they were just as cute as I do
So toads vs. frogs is basically just rectangle vs. square argument. Got it.
More like rhombus vs diamond. Same shape, just viewed from a different angle.
It's more like "all thumbs are fingers but not all fingers are thumbs".
She just said toad and frog are meaningless for taxonomy.
A square is a fully equilateral rectangle, not all rectangles are.
@@noone3216 so arthur was right lol, all squares are rectangles but not all rectangles are squares
@@idkwhatnametouse4392 ummmm.... nah, afraid not. The shape 'square' is defined as having sides of equal length. As soon as the sides aren't equal, it's not a square. While the right-angles of a rectangle are sometimes called "square angles", the shape is never classified as "a square". Thumbs on the other hand (no pun intended) are classified as one of your five fingers. So it is accurate and correct to call thumbs 'fingers', but the other four fingers are never called 'thumbs', because thumbs are an opposable digit.
The frog when they jump be like:
"I believe I can fly-"
*"NOPE NO I DON'T"*
Those pumpkin toadlets actually look similar to the golden mantella in Madagascar. I wished Mantellas were talked about more often. When people think of poisonous frogs, you automatically think of the poison dart frogs of Central and South America. But there is another type of frog outside of Latin America that has bright colors to warn predators of its poison, and gets their poison from their food, and that's where the Mantella comes in. In fact, the poison dart frogs are so famous, when the Mantellas were discovered in 1866, they were automatically placed in the Dendrobates genus. Didn't take until 1882 for them to be given their own genus, and eventually their own family Mantellidae.
God I love this series so much. I was having a really bad day and this cheered me right up. What silly little guys these froglets are!
Hope your day gets better!
@@shelbylynn9 Thanks. That's really sweet
Leave him alone
You have confirmed my long held theory that all Toads are frogs but not all frogs are toads! Thank you!
I feel like you have made a reference to one of my most favorite book series
@@Angeloflight1415_LastelleCrea if there is a Witch named Angela in it then you might be right.
@@adamdubin1276 Yes there is!
jup. and all newts are salamanders, all snakes are lizards and all birds are dinosaurs.
i hate this naming thing because here in brazil "toad" translates to "rã" and "frog" into "sapo", rã is the moist skin and long legs while sapo is the one with rough skin and short legs. basicaly, the names are switched for no reason
The frogs jump like they've been hit with a skyrim paralysis spell
OMG that's so cool! I made the figures of the inner ears!!! And am on the paper! I'm so excited to see them featured on a platform that reaches so many people!!!
Oh my goodness! Thank you so much for helping to create such incredible research!!!
@@ambersingh5541 do you have a PhD? Also good job!
@@roberttompkins9510 Not yet! I am currently in a MS program and will pursue a PhD when I finish. This is some of the work I did as an undergraduate.
Wow!! You're cool as hell! ❤️ This sounds like it was a fun project to work on, and just as much hard work! 😊
Thank you for your science! 🧡
Oh man, this is so cute! And the fantastic narration is just the icing on the cake. Truly a joy watching and listening to this video.
"This Frog Is Bad At Basically Everything"
Looks like my spirit animal
This was an absolutely delightful video :) I lost my mind at those JUMPS!! WHAT HE DOIN
This is perfect for Halloween 🎃
What's the connection I don't get it?
@@Totalinternalreflection Pumpkins are associated with fall, and carving faces into pumpkins is a Halloween tradition.
These are frogs are called Pumpkin Toadlets
@@PaulMab9 oh right, I missed the name of them.
@@Totalinternalreflection And their bones glow in the UV light, which adds to the picture.
I mean, they survive because they are toxic.
They say that it’s weird they are still alive considering that they can’t land their jumps and can’t even hear each other’s mating calls, but then they mention off-handedly that they are highly toxic and that predators avoid them. That’s probably the primary reason they are still around!
C- grade still requires 70%!
they’re doing their best and i love them
Oh. My. Gosh. *these frogs are absolutely adorable*
I've never related to an animal so much.
Just imagine being some hungry bird, hearing a small sound and hoping it's food, and then you see one of these stupid little jolly-rancher bastards.
Still an adorable little toadlet ♥️ 🐸
Boy pumpkin frog: I love you
girl pumpkin frog: what?
boy: I said I love you
girl: I can't hear you
boy: *frog hops closer*...... *misses*
This is probably the perfect video for me rn, somehow got stuck in the hospital for at least two days following a wisdom tooth surgery and I needed something to distract me.
Oh heck! I hope you feel better real soon! - Sarah
Dying rn aswell, these things are welcome when i cant get up and do anything (which is the only thig thats really going to make you feel better)
We need a 2 hour compliation video of Pumpkin Toadlets jumping to get us through these trying times.
I could watch those tiny bastards jump around all day long and never get bored. Adorable little duckers.
Well that's a frog i can relate to
"This Frog is Bad At Basically Everything"
Me: *maybe I am a frog*
Oh my god, how do I get like six of those pins? How do I get them as earrings and a necklace? How do I get a patch for my jacket? I want to surround myself with pumpkin spice toadlets.
You could sign up for the pin club 6 times! (today is the last day for the pumpkin toadlets...)
It's hilarious that they just fling themselves into the air and hope for the best. I like these toadlets!
I never thought seeing those little guys jump would bring me so much joy
The pumpkin toadlet pins are long gone, but you can find a wonderful, signed, limited edition art print by Emily Graslie right here: store.dftba.com/collections/bizarrebeasts/products/emily-graslie-print
Messy but functional. I am now using that to describe me going forth.
Can never really seem to stick the landing, and constantly trying to find love but hearing none in return?
I think I just found the perfect spirit animal for me!
"I be too smol, I no can frog"
I was just listening to this, and when she described how they jumped, I just thought of them ragdolling in midair.
I could even hear the gmod thumping.
So wait, the *entire species* went deaf and is just lipreading! Lol
Ugh they’re ridiculously cute
Read the title and immediately was like "ah yes, my spirit animal"
I love how they land on their backs and just appear to give up for a few seconds.
"Ah the F's of evolution: fighting, fleeing, feeding and mating"
The m is a polite version of a word which starts with f
They're doing their best and I love them
Edit: ok so, maybe they aren't trying their whole entire best. BUT! They're cute little boops of mess and I love them. Also, they are a whole, entire vibe
They are doing just enough to get by. I respect that vibe lol
_> they aren't trying their whole entire best_
_>no point in it_
Can relate to that.
They literally are doing their best though, haha. They physically can’t do any better.
@TurboGamer edit: i dont see it as useless to be transparent as to what exactly they edited in their comment, maybe i am stupid
@TurboGamer can you tell what i edited ? :3
my dude just Jumps and presses the Ragdoll button
They still jump more elegantly than I do
This is a great example that demonstrates the intelligent design fallacy. This is precisely what we’d expect from a “just good enough” natural selection process.
Being good at eating and bad at everything else makes this a large part of humanity's collective spirit animal.
At least they're poisonous, because God help 'em if they tried to run away from danger
Another genus' male frog another genus: Come to me, baby
Another genus' female frog: Yes, handsome
Male pumpkin toadlet: *GLOW*
Female pumpkin toadlet: Wow, so romantic
They're so small, we didn't discover the majority of them until the 21st century! Sadly, because most species of these have tiny ranges, they're seriously threatened. Doesn't help that a fungus has caused declines in at least *501* amphibian species
I see ur comments everywhere
Err don't you think it's the only glowing frog in South America?
@@erynn9968 I looked it up and apparently, the polka dot tree frog is another species that fluoresces.
@@erynn9968 what Avery said is probably true. There may be more species of fluorescent frogs, but they might go extinct before we can ever discover them.
@@karama5562 lol I googled "fluorescent frogs' and given at least 4 species. Many more in case of a deeper than 5sec research I guess.
it's okay, it has one thing it's not bad at and it is being adorable.
One thing I have in common with these frogs, we both manage to exist.
at least this frog is insanely good at being cute and pretty
They're so, just so, so cute. It hurts. They're orange, like pumpkins. It's horribly adorable. Lord.
Science: Pumpkin toadlets are messed up failures.
Pumpkin toadlets: What did we ever do to you 😭
The limitation of the fluid movement in their inner ears due to size and the viscosity of water is genuinely fascinating.
in an alternate world, where frogs are leaders. this video would be about me
Ive known about these little dudes for less than 5 minutes and i already would die for them
"This frog is bad at basically everything" I think I found my spirit animal.
The human is nature's one rogue A+ that the teacher never let them forget
I just can’t help but laugh watching them plank and do flips at the same time when they jump it looks hilarious 😂😂
I WANT SEVERAL OF THEM
I saw the thumbnail and knew i needed this frog as a pet
The pumpkin toadlet pins are long gone, but you can get a glittery pumpkin toadlet sticker right now! store.dftba.com/collections/bizarrebeasts/products/bizarre-beasts-sticker-pack-vol-4
I read this as "The Pumpkin Toadlets were long gone" and assumed they had managed to go extinct in the time this video was posted.
Pumpkin toadlet whaaaaat? :O
Bruh this reminds me of Central America Golden Frogs
Losing my mind at their name being brachycephalus bc everything from their thoughtless round eyes to general incompetence at moving and making noises is exactly like my brachycephalic (rescue) Persian cat 🥹
THE WAY THEY LAND 😭😭😭 OMG
UA-cam: “This frog is bad at basically everything-“
Me: “Shut up”
UA-cam: “???”
Me: “You had me at frog!”
I now want this frog as a pet. It will be the only pet that will ever understand what I go through.
2:25 It genuinely looks like some sadist got him drunk before recording that.
OH MY GOD, I HAVE NEVER IN MY WHOLE LIFE LAUGHED SO HARD TO THE POINT IM *SOBBING* . THE WAY THEY JUMP, I CAN'T!
epic lolzers for the win
Finally I've found my spirit animal
I have really small ear canals. I am clumsy. I can relate to this little guy.
Me: *reads the title*
…
Me: I think I’ve found my spirit animal
There is a whole family of frogs, Ascaphidae, that lack external ears. One theory is that they "hear" the mating call through vibrations in the ground.
thats it
i cant even anymore
I got my pin earlier this week and immediately couldn’t wait for this. The pin’s so cute, too!
Finally, the definitive reason for being an herpetologist
Came across this video with my boyfriend and we both saw the title and said “me” at the exact same time
We are now roleplaying mostly deaf frogs who jump weird
Drinking game: take a shot everytime she says "small".
I think I'm a pumpkin toadlet. Would explain my life! Cute, little creatutes