Wiping behavior of Pithecopus ayeaye in the field and in captivity

Video 1: Wiping behavior of a calling male of Pithecopus ayeaye (Anura: Hylidae) in the Serra da Canastra, municipality of Sacramento, southeastern Brazil. Video recorded by Renato Nali in 2010.

Videos 2 and 3: Wiping behavior of two different metamorphosed Pithecopus ayeaye individuals collected as tadpoles from the same locality as video 1. They were kept in terraria for experiments. Videos recorded by Lucas Zena and Gabriela Leandro in 2019.

These videos are cited in the article published in The Herpetological Journal, entitled: "Out in the wind: wiping behaviour in the leaf-frog Pithecopus ayeaye, and first evidence of bladder-flling behaviour in the genus", by Renato C Nali, Marília M Borges, Gabriela Leandro, Lucas Zena, Kênia C Bícego and Cynthia P A Prado.