Frogs

Guide Note

Found all over the world and in almost every color of the rainbow, frogs are highly adaptive amphibians, changing their habits and even their skin color to match their environment. You can recognize a frog by its bulging eyes, squat body, long back legs and webbed feet. A frog's skin is smooth or slimy, not warty and dry like a toad's, and frogs do not have tails like salamanders and lizards.

Populations of frogs have declined significantly since 1970 and have been losing ground even more rapidly in recent years. At least a third of frog species are now in danger of extinction.

Fast Facts

  1. Class: Amphibia
  2. Order: Anura
  3. Species of frogs: Over 4,900
  4. Largest: Goliath Frog
  5. Smallest: Brazilian Gold Frog
  6. Herpetologist: Person who studies frogs
  7. Newly hatched frogs are called tadpoles
  8. The first frog lived 190,000 years ago
  9. A group of frogs is called an army
  10. Females can lay as many as 4,000 eggs at a time
  11. Frogs swallow their food whole
  12. Drink water through their skin
  13. Have ears and teeth
  14. Shed their skin as they grow
  15. Can change skin color to hide from predators

Some Frogs...

  1. Are poisonous
  2. Have claws
  3. Hibernate in the winter
  4. Keep their eggs in a pouch like a kangaroo
  5. Scream like a cat when provoked
  6. Live as long as 40 years
  7. Can jump 20 times their own length
  8. Can live in the desert for years without water
  9. Can throw up their stomach and clean it with their legs

The Mahalo Top 7

  1. Wikipedia: Frog
  2. American Museum of Natural History: Frogs: A Chorus of Colors
  3. LivingUnderworld.org: Frogs and Toads Information Resource
  4. Houston Zoo: Frog Blog
  5. Kiddyhouse.com: All About Frogs for Kids and Teachers
  6. Exploratorium: Frogs
  7. YouTube Video: Freezing North American Wood Frogs (Time 3:45)  Jeffhoard: Mindblowing


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