Spotted Snout-burrower, Hemisus guttatusimage credit: arkive.org

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Spotted Snout-burrower, Hemisus guttatusimage credit: Craig Gibbon



Spotted Snout-burrower, Hemisus guttatusimage credit: arkive.org

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Spotted Snout-burrower, Hemisus guttatusimage credit: Craig Gibbon

Spotted Snout-burrower, Hemisus guttatusimage credit: arkive.org
Habitat: South Africa and possibly Swaziland

Status: Vulnerable

You know, I’m wondering if the Spotted Snout-burrower (Hemisus guttatus) decided to live its life underground because of those yellow spots. They make it look a bit iffy, you know, like it has some sort of weird disease. Kind of like a froggy chicken pox!

Maybe it was banished to live underground so as not to infect other creatures above. Like when those with the Bubonic Plague were quarantined. I mean, it’s gotten used to living in the dirt at least; it has those big, muscular thighs and no webbing between the fingers and toes so it can easily move around soil.

Maybe the disease turns you into a ZOMBIE? A yellow, spotty, frog zombie.

Yes… perhaps…