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Surinam Toad (Pipa Americana) with Young Ones Hatching out of Little Pockets on her Back

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In the case of the thoroughly aquatic Surinam Toad (Pipa), the male helps to press the eggs, perhaps a hundred in number, on to the back of the female, where each sinks into a pocket of skin with a little lid. By and by fully formed young toads jump out of the pockets.