Rocky River Tree Frog tadpole.
Source: Museum Victoria
The Rocky River Tree Frogs in our Forest Gallery display have successfully reproduced again this year.
If you wander through the Forest Gallery at Melbourne Museum, you’ll see approximately sixty tiny taddies swimming around in the enclosure.
Twenty more of these tadpoles have been taken back-of-house so that the Live Exhibits team can ensure that some will survive to maturity as frogs.
Rocky River Tree Frogs are a common species found in the fast-flowing mountain streams of eastern Victoria. They grow to a length of 45mm, and the males call during the breeding season with a series of short repeated calls – creww crewwk crewwwwk crewwwwwk!