Which is an unusual characteristic of the 'Pipa pipa' (Surinam toad)?

The Surinam toad doesn’t look like most other toads. It also doesn’t give birth like one. In one of the strangest birth methods in the animal kingdom, babies erupt from a cluster of tiny holes in their mother’s back. Baby toads don’t go through a larval or tadpole stage, instead erupting from mom’s back as fully formed, half-inch toadlets after about three to four months.

As fully aquatic species, Surinam toads live in slow-moving water sources, such as rainforest pools and moist leaf litter throughout eastern Trinidad and Tobago and much of the Amazon Basin.

'Pipa pipa' are aquatic omnivores. They eat worms, insects, crustaceans, and small fishes. They lack tongues and use the long, sensitive fingers of their forelimbs to search for food on the bottoms of ponds.

Its average life span in captivity is 8 years. The Surinam toad population is not currently in danger, though its habitat is threatened by human encroachment, such as logging, farming, and ranching.