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Apr 26, 2019 · It might not look like a record holder, but don't let the unimpressive size of Ptychadena oxyrhynchus fool you … these frogs are pretty phenomenal jumpers. It was a little sharp-nosed grass frog ...
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Welcome back to The Nature Nook for our first post of 2021! We hope everyone has had a great Christmas and New Year and is ready to delve into our next Freaky Frog article! So far in this series, we’ve looked at a frog the size of a baked bean, a frog whose unsightly folds of wrinkled skin has earned it the name ‘scrotum frog’, a frog that can prot...
Most amphibians have soft bodies, thin skin, and no obvious claws, spines, or defensive armour. To put it another way, they seem quite helpless. Nevertheless, many amphibians have developed various defence mechanisms to keep themselves alive, ranging from slippery skin to toxic secretions – although some species have been a bit more inventive… The ...
The paradoxical frog is so-called because its tadpoles are significantly larger than the adult frogs they will turn into. This highly aquatic amphibian from South America spawns in floating foam nests. The eggs contain a large amount of yolk, which can sustain the developing tadpoles for weeks, allowing them to reach up to 25 cm in length – the lar...
There are no prizes for guessing how glass frogs got their name! From above, most species looks fairly ordinary, with standard lime-green skin, including the cricket glass frog in the image below. On their undersides, however, these amphibians have extremely thin, see-through skin. In some species, this underbelly skin can be almost disconcertingly...
Powered flight in the natural world has evolved four times. Today, most birds, insects and bats can take to the air whenever they please. And in the past, during the time of the dinosaurs, now-extinct reptiles called pterosaurs soared across prehistoric skies. But points should still be awarded to a few other animals for trying. There are flying sq...
Moustaches seem to divide women. Some like them; others hate them. But for a species of frog called Leptobrachium boringii, otherwise known as the Emei moustache toad, it turns out that all females like them. In fact, the males specifically grow them during the breeding season to impress potential mates. Okay, we admit: they aren’t real moustaches....
- Moor Frog. For most of the year, the moor frog from Asia and continental Europe looks unremarkable. Being a generally reddish-brown colour with hints of olive, it looks quite a bit like the common frog that lives here in the UK.
- Marsupial Frog. The male Darwin’s frog looks after his young inside his vocal sac. The gastric-brooding frog (before its extinction) safeguarded its eggs and tadpoles within the female’s own stomach.
- Rhinella proboscidea. This little Amazonian toad is so obscure it doesn’t even have a common name. And it would probably be even more obscure if didn’t exhibit a very intriguing behaviour: it’s the only species known to practise reproductive, rather than accidental, necrophilia.
- Tailed Frogs. Anura – the biological order to which all frogs and toads belong – literally means ‘without tail’. And indeed, unlike other amphibians, such as newts and salamanders, all anurans are completely tailess in their adult form.
Nov 6, 2020 · The frog’s near-silence makes it difficult to find, despite its size, which means that relatively little is known about it. We do know, however, that the restricted distribution of the goliath frog makes it vulnerable to habitat loss, collection for the pet trade, and harvesting by humans for food. Indeed, in its native range, the meat of ...
- Turtle Frog. The name is taken from how it looks. It is like a turtle without a shell. It has a plump and flat-shaped body, a flat nose, beady eyes, and stumpy short legs.
- Titicaca Water Frog. This is a funky looking type of frog. It is known for being one of the largest frogs in the water. It possesses too much skin amount.
- Glass Frog. As their name implies, these frogs have transparent skin found on their abdomen. It has a see-through skin letting you see the organs inside.
- Darwin’s Frog. This is a tiny strange frog. It just looks like a fallen leaf having colors like gray or green and brown. Their underside is dark brown always.
Just like bears and bats ( but not beavers ), many frogs hibernate by lowering their body temperatures, heart rates, and metabolisms. Ontario’s Wood Frogs, Chorus Frogs, Spring Peepers, and Gray Tree Frogs turn into frogsicles once temperatures drop below -5°C. Their breathing, bodily functions, and even their hearts stop as miniscule ice ...
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About. Common frogs are amphibians, breeding in ponds during the spring and spending much of the rest of the year feeding in woodland, gardens, hedgerows and tussocky grassland. They are familiar inhabitants of garden ponds, where they lay their eggs in big 'rafts' of spawn. They feed on a variety of invertebrates and even smaller amphibians.
