A rather small (Males 21–24 mm) frog from the eastern savannas. Body and snout elongated, snout pointed. In the breeding season, and possibly also outside males have black spinosities on hindfeet and sometimes on hindlegs and ventrum. Males larger than females. Colour in life translucent green, yellow or brownish with a conspicuous white canthal and dorsolateral line delimited by rather large black chromatophores. The green colour disappears after preservation, so the white lines are only indicated by two rows of chromatophores on those individuals that were green in life, still visible in the brown specimens. Ventrum whitish. Throat and underside of limbs green in the green specimens, whitish in the others. The females may all be green. Hyperolius parkeri has a voice quite different from other Hyperolius, males which are larger than females, a strange calling position and male spinosities. Anatomical studies may reveal that it should be separated into its own genus. Voice. – The males call from well-concealed positions among grass and leaves. They seem to vocalise from the resting position, not erect as in other members of the genus. The voice is a fast, high-pitched trill, quite different from the voice of other Hyperolius species. After an initial sound there is a repercussion of a number of identical figures at a rate of about 20 per second and a duration of about 1.5 sec. There is a well-defined frequency-intensity maximum at about 4500–5000 cps.
Tree Frogs are one of the most commonly used frogs in magazine and television advertisements, due to their bright green skin and ruby red eyes. With a little care put into their environment, these cartoonish looking frogs will do well, and even breed in captivity. Provide them with plenty of cover and climbing branches. They will do best in larger groups of 4 - 5 pairs in large well-planted terrariums. Red Eyes are available as both field collected adults and captive bred juveniles. Juveniles will grow rapidly, but must be fed daily. They will reach maturity in 1 - 2 years. At almost twice the size females are much larger than males.
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