What Are You Looking At?,

in the UK is normally the start of a bit of trouble,

but not in this case, another strange creature like yesterday's living jewel, but here is the thing, the creature in this photograph sits still all day, waiting for prey and hoping it's camouflage will mean it is not prey itself! which means that researchers have reported on the difficulty of spotting leaf frogs during the day, as they tend to hide among dead leaves and stay perfectly still. The exact opposite is true at night, though, as light from flashlights easily reflects from its eyes, giving away its location and that is what you are looking at, the Malayan leaf frog, a.k.a long-nosed horned frog, (Megophrys nasuta), is one of the most remarkable creatures on Earth, at least in terms of natural camouflage, photograph Bernard DUPONT/Flickr,

the Malayan leaf frog lives among leaf litter, in the permanently damp and cool lowland rainforests areas of southern Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia to Singapore, Sumatra and Borneo, because its habitat covers such a large area, the population of leaf-mimicking frogs is believed to be very large, but deforestation is already considered a big threat to its existence, as it leads to habitat loss, but as the article states there has been limited success in breeding them that should hopefully cut down on the collection of wild species, what a master of disguises!