Mountain Chicken (Frog) Leptodactylus fallax

Mountain Chicken
Mountain Chicken Frog
The Mountain Chicken is a large frog native to the Caribbean Islands of Montserrat and Dominica (and formerly to other islands). It is hunted by people for food and is said to taste like chicken.
Mountain Chicken
Mountain Chicken Frog
Mountain Chicken Frog
The Mountain Chicken is now critically endangered, partly through hunting, partly through habitat loss and partly through a deadly fungal disease.
Mountain Chicken
Mountain Chicken Frog
Mountain Chicken Frog
One of the world's largest frogs, the female can grow to over 8 inches long. She feeds her tadpoles her own, unfertilised eggs in a foam nest in a terrestrial burrow.