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Get the M.E.N.'s Manchester Family newsletter for all the latest from back to school news to ways to entertain the kids An endangered frog from South America with a rather 'unfortunate nickname' has gone on display at Chester Zoo for the very first time, the zoo has announced.

The world's largest aquatic frog is officially known as Lake Titicaca frog - named after the lake where it lives on the border of Bolivia and Peru.

But it's also referred to as 'the scrotum frog,' because it spends most of its life at the bottom of the lake, absorbing oxygen from the water using its saggy folds of excessive skin. READ MORE: Manchester Pride brings back strict clear bag policy - here's what you need to know Twenty of the rare amphibians are now

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