FROGS
Amphibian     -     Vertebrate      -     Carnivore

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FINGER CORAL TREE FROG

WAXY MONKEY FROG

Male ...........................................  Frog
Female  ......................................  Frog
Young   ................  Polliwog. Tadpole

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IDIOMS, METAPHORS AND EXPRESSIONS

1. A frog in the throat
2. Biggest frog in the puddle
   
3. Frogmarch
4. Frog spit
   
5. Frog sticker
   
6. If a frog had wheels, they wouldn't bump their butts
   
7. Fine as a frog hair
   

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SIMILE
As fine as a frog's hair

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• Need to live near water
  
• Have a moist, smooth skin that make them look 'slimy'
  
• Eat insects and large ones eat small snakes, mice and even smaller frogs
  
• Food has to be 'living' when it is eaten
  
• Sticky tongue is thrown out of its mouth and wraps around the prey.  
  
• Have poor eyesight but a great sense of hearing
  
• Have an eardrum on the outside of their head
• Sleep with one eye open
• Have powerful bag legs and webbed feet which means that they can leap/jump and swim
  
• Dig a burrow for hibernation
  
• Some frogs live in trees
  
• Because red and orange are usually considered to be 'warning signs' so will warn off predators
  
• Predators are birds, fish and reptiles and humans
  
• Can be hypnotised by placing it on its back and gently stroking its stomach
• A Wood Frog can be frozen solid and still be alive when it is reheated
• The Southern Cricket Frog can jump up to 60 times its own length … that is like a human jumping a 38 storey building
• You can see the organs inside the tropical Glass Tree Frog
• The tadpole of the Paradox Frog is larger than the frog itself
• Cannot swallow with their eyes open
• Absorbs all the water they need through their skin … they don't drink it
• Many tree frogs freeze in Winter and spring back to life in the Spring
• Find their way back to their breeding grounds by following the smell of the pond's algae
• The Golden Poison Dart Frog is one of the most toxic creatures on earth - the venom of one frog can kill ten grown humans

There are nearly 5,000 known species of frogs

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COLLECTIVE NOUNS

1. An army of frogs
   
2. A box of frogs
   
3. A bundle of frogs
   
4. A colony of frogs
   
5. As froggery of frogs
   
6. A knot of frogs
   
7. A nod of frogs
   
8. A squiggle of tadpoles
   

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BUMBLEBEE FROG

RED-EYED TREE FROG EYE

RED-EYED TREE FROG

POISON DART FROG

POISON DART FROG

THE TROPICAL GLASS TREE FROG

A SPRING PEEPER FROG

GREEN EYED TREE FROG

WALLACE'S FLYING FROG

GOLDEN POISON DART FROG

NORTHERN LEOPARD FROG

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