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FROGS
Amphibian     -     Vertebrate      -     Carnivore

toads ...

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FINGER CORAL TREE FROG

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Male:  Frog

Female:  Frog

Young:  Polliwog, Tadpole

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FROGS

There are nearly 5,000 known species of frogs.

• Have 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.
• It takes about three and half months for a tadpole to change into a frog.
• 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.
• Red-eyed tree frog's eggs can hatch early if they sense danger.
• Male Darwin Frogs incubate their eggs in their mouths.
• Young Panamanian Golden Frogs protect themselves with toxic skin secretions.

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Fourteen new species of dancing frogs were discovered in 2014.  The global number of known dancing frog species is now 24.

Tadpoles

• Is a young, or larva, of an amphibian, such as a frog or newt.  
• The egg is usually laid in in water and hatches out into a small, swimming creature with a long tail.
• Feeds on water plants and gradually develops into its adult form.
• As they grow, they slowly develop limbs.

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Visit:  Frogs . COLLECTIVE NOUNS, SIMILE, IDIOMS, METAPHORS and EXPRESSIONS

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NORTHERN LEOPARD FROG

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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

WAXY MONKEY FROG

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