Alice Springs Desert Park, Australia
1999
Frans Lanting
“A desert spadefoot frog surfaces with a wary stare at Australia’s Alice Springs Desert Park. Life hides in unexpected places: These frogs wait for rain deep in the outback’s red sands???for years, if need be."
Desert Spadefoot Toad (Notaden nichollsi) is a species of frog in the Limnodynastidae family. It is endemic to Australia. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, subtropical or tropical dry lowland grassland, intermittent freshwater marshes, hot deserts, and temperate desert.
