Zhangixalus dennysi

Denny's whipping frog, Denny's gliding tree frog, Denny's large tree frog, large tree frog or Blanford's whipping frog (Zhangixalus dennysi) is a frog.  It lives in China, Vietnam, Laos, and Myanmar.

This frog lives in forests in low places, on mountains, and near streams on hills. This frog lives mostly in forests that have never been cut down. People have seen it between 80 and 1500 meters above sea level.

This frog is about four inches long and has a very loud voice. It has disks on its toes that let it climb and stick to trees. It has a large amount of webbed skin between its toes. When it jumps off a tree branch, the skin stretches. The frog uses the skin to glide between branches and trees like a person on a hang glider. It can move its feet to steer.

The female frog makes a nest out of bubbles and blades of grass high in the trees. She puts her eggs in the nest. When the eggs hatch, the tadpoles fall into paddy fields, holes full of water, ponds, or marshes, where they swim and grow.

Scientists say this frog is not in danger of dying out but it is in some danger because people change the place where it lives: People go into the forest to take things they need. People change the forest into small farms. Dirty chemicals, fires, and changes in the water can also hurt this frog. In some places, people catch this frog to eat or sell as a pet.

Some of the places this frog lives are protected parks.

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Category:Frogs of Asia