Bubbling Boghopper

Bubbling Boghoppers are large frogs that produce floating bubbles from their head and back.

Boghoppers are round and have pink skin and pale bellies, with mottled black patterns on their backs, which are covered with foam vents. The vents blow gas into through the frog's slime layer when it exhales, causing bubbles to form. The bubbles have a resilient film, and require heat to be ruptured. The frog, filled with the same light gas, is able to ride larger bubbles into the air. It can also emit a long, high-pitched scream when threatened by squeezing their vents and exhaling, which deters most predators with sensitive hearing.

The bubbles allow the frog to hunt and reproduce. They possess no sizable tongue, unlike most frogs, so the Bubbling Boghopper uses bubbles to hunt. A group of frogs creates a "bubble zone," which consists of a large stretch of air full of bubbles, and waits for insects to become trapped in the bubbles before consuming them. Berylbees often break form and panic when they enter a bubbly hunting zone, allowing the frogs to pick them off easily.

After mating, the Boghopper lays its eggs into a large bubble and protects them. When they hatch, the tadpoles stay inside of the bubble until they are large enough to travel out in a bubble of their own, waiting for insects to enter and become trapped. When the frog enters the adult stage, it exits the bubble and floats down to the surface.