i just think this is so important and i think this is the greatest life lesson you could learn in your childhood, or at any age (from Frog and Toad by Arnold Lobel)
Commonly named after the British naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace, the Wallace’s Flying Frog, Rhacophorus nigropalmatus (Rhacophoridae) is a dramatic looking frog distinguished from other flying frogs by its large size (up to 10 cm), and the black coloration of the webbing on all four feet. The dorsal surface of the body and legs is a vivid green, and the side yellow. The large eyes have horizontal pupils.
Living mainly at mid-canopy level of tropical rainforests, the extensive webbing allows for long glides from tree to tree. The species can be found at ground level when it descends to mate and construct its bubble nest. It is distributed Thailand, Laos and Vietnam through Peninsular Malaysia to the island of Borneo.
This was the only frog collected by Wallace in Sarawak (1854). He wrote a vivid description of the species, including a sketch drawn by himself in his notebook and the assessment that it was a new Rhacophorus, but this remained unnamed until described as Rhacophorus nigropalmatus (Boulenger 1895).
