I saw a couple of these tiny toads (about half an inch in length). They live in the leaf litter on the ground in the Amazon rainforest. For this image, the toad is almost right up against the front element of my wide-angle macro lens. That shelf behind the toad is a tree root. Nikon D850 with Laowa 15mm lens, ISO 1600, unrecorded f/stop at 1/125th of a second, Godox V860iii flash with Westcott soft box.
Back in the late ‘80s ZZ Top wrote a song about how attractive this species of toad was, but audiences weren’t ready for itr, so they changed the chorus to be about a Sharp Dressed Man. But if you actually google the lyrics you’ll still see a lot of references to eating insects and living under rotting leaves.
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I saw a couple of these tiny toads (about half an inch in length). They live in the leaf litter on the ground in the Amazon rainforest. For this image, the toad is almost right up against the front element of my wide-angle macro lens. That shelf behind the toad is a tree root. Nikon D850 with Laowa 15mm lens, ISO 1600, unrecorded f/stop at 1/125th of a second, Godox V860iii flash with Westcott soft box.
Back in the late ‘80s ZZ Top wrote a song about how attractive this species of toad was, but audiences weren’t ready for itr, so they changed the chorus to be about a Sharp Dressed Man. But if you actually google the lyrics you’ll still see a lot of references to eating insects and living under rotting leaves.
Not sure how you even spotted this guy on the forest floor, given that he is so perfectly camouflaged !