Maurice Shema

And I think he also doesn't want if one's born, it comes up to eat the other one.

And then coming back and checking on them all the time to make sure there's enough water.

And if they need to eat, the dads, they can't feed the tadpoles.

Sorry, little froggies.

Only mommy can feed you by laying one of her eggs for you to eat.

So they'll do their song again to try and persuade if there's a female in the area to come and feed them a little bit more.

Remember, they're the size of your thumbnail.

Yeah, teensy.

And they're, like, journeying with these tadpole babies all over, placing them, coming back, checking on them.

And they're so cute.

They also guard the eggs, like the poison dart frogs, but then they do this really funny thing.

They put them in their mouth.

They swallow them.

No.

They swallow the eggs, and then they store them in a vocal sac in their throat because it's safer, right?

It's safer in there.

No.

And then inside this pouch in their throat, they grow and they're protected.

The father eats a bit less.

He stops calling around so much because he doesn't want to draw attention.