Australian toadlet.

Today I found 2 articles about a small Australian toad that was recently discovered. It is called the Pilbara toadlet and the scientific name is Uperoleia saxatilis. Both articles are about the same thing, but I think the one from cosmosmagazine.com is more descriptive.

It is about 2 centimeters long and it is a burrowing frog. It can be found in creeks and rocky gorges.The discovery of this toadlet proves that  there is more diversity in Australia's amphibians than scientists thought. Including the Pilbara toadlet, there are about 27 toadlet species. apparently, little is known about the Pilbara toadlet. they might have studied it more now because both of the articles are from July 26.

a picture that was in both of the articles

cosmosmagazine.com/new australian toadlet species discovered

www.upi.com/Tiny toad found in Australian desert

More chytrid fungus

hey! remember the last post I made? in part of the post, I was talking about chytrid fungus.Well today, I found an article talking about different techniques to " prevent the effects of the disease and curb potential future extinctions."

 the article said that the researchers warn it is still too soon to recommend the treatments, as the fungus may develop a resistance to them.

            one technique from the article was keeping infected tadpoles in a place that is over 68.9 degrees
          fahrenheit, which is hotter than they are used to. Then when they are grown up, they are set free.
          of course, this doesn't always work.
          scientists have also tried bathing frogs in antifungal itraconazole, which slows down the infection of  chytrid fungus.

 article website: http://www.livescience.com/15315-frog-fungus-treatment.html

The Pond is Back!

Today I am going to write about a pretty simple article. It is called " How Eating Frog Legs is Causing Frog Extinction."
frogs are a very popular food all over the world. Many restaurants sell them, and they areconsidered a delicacy in some places.

According to a new report, an average of 2,280 metric tons of frog legs are imported into this country each year—that's the equivalent of somewhere between 450 million and 1.1 billion frogs.

If that's just for the United States, imagine how many frogs are sold worldwide. To put it shortly - to many!
According to the article, the two main reasons that this is a problem are:
. Too many frogs are being taken out of the wild.
&
. live frogs spreading chytrid fungus

A basic description of chytrid fungus:  a fungus that clogs up the skin of frogs and kills them. frogs that have chytrid fungus can pass it on to other frogs. that's why transporting live frogs is a problem.

savethefrogs.com  has a section on their website about eating frog legs. They also have a petition you can participate in against restaurants serving frog legs.

Last year, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service asked for public comments on a proposal to ban the import of live frogs under the Lacey Act, which regulates the import or transport of wildlife species that are either dangerous to humans or the environment. The public comment period ended in December; there is no word yet on if the proposal will become law. 

the article web address: http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/post.cfm?id=how-eating-frog-legs-is-causing-fro-2011-07-27

Snow Frogs

I don't think most people know this, but some frogs live in the snow! Frogs are cold blooded, that means that their body temperature is the same as the outdoor temperature. There is an article about it on National Geographic.com . Apparently, frogs that live in the snow grow slower, but live longer.

Here are some pictures fromNational Geographic.com

Save The Frogs Day!

This year, April 29th, is the 3rd national Save The Frogs Day. Save The Frogs Day is a day to celebrate, raise awareness of, and save the frogs! On the Save The Frogs website ( savethefrogs.com ) there is a special page just for Save The Frogs Day. (  Save The Frogs Day ) and from that page you can register a project you will be doing on the 29th to save the frogs. It's a little late to plan anything big now, but you could do something small and quick, like me. I am making a power-point slide show to present during my school assembley. To make it more fun, I have a little quiz about frogs on it and I am giving out a piece of candy or plastic toy if someone gets a question right. If you want a link to the registration form for Save The Frogs Day, here it is : 
Save The Frogs Day registration 

 


 

quiz answers 2

 (*correct answers in red)


1)Which one of these does not mean frog?
A)Kaeru
B)grenouille
C)rana
D)la joie   (it means joy in french)

 
The strawberry frog lays eggs for her babies to eat
A)true
B)false
The strawberry frog lays all her tadpoles in seprate flowers at the top of trees in the rain forest. Every day she lays unfertalized eggs for her babies to eat.


the word Amphibian means:
A) wet creature
B) long jumps
C) two lives
D) sticky limbs


there are frogs that have lived more than 20 years
A) true
B) false
 there are frogs who have lived more than 30 years in captivity!


frogs have eyelids
A) true
B) false

Frog quiz 2!!

here is another (short) quiz about frogs! I will post the answers tommorow.

1)Which one of these does not mean frog?
A)Kaeru
B)grenouille
C)rana
D)la joie

The strawberry frog lays eggs for her babies to eat
A)true
B)false

the word Amphibian means:
A) wet creature
B) long jumps
C) two lives
D) sticky limbs

there are frogs that have lived more than 20 years
A) true
B) false

frogs have eyelids
A) true
B) false

newly bred hybrid frog

I saw an article on livescience.com about a newly bred frog. It's parents are Agalychnis moreletii (the father) and Agalychnis annae  (the mother). They are very similar frogs. They are endangered and they are both leaf frogs.


here is a description of the frog and it's parents:

The parents look very much alike – in fact their skulls are nearly indistinguishable – but they have different coloration. Their love child resembles both, but is also distinct. It has dark red irises like the papa frog A. moreletii, and the purple-to-blue coloration along its flanks and thighs, like most A. annae, the mama frog. However, its hands and feet are more intense orange than seen in either parent.

the newly bred hybrid frog

My first reaction was, "WOW, this is cool!". Then I thought, "but what was the point of doing it?"  Well aperantly, knowing the behaviors between and of different species of frog is very inportant to conserving them.

 Hybridization experiments like this are helpful in better understanding the inheritance of genes in amphibians, including those determining color patterns, the researchers write.  

 I still am a little fuzzy on how that helps frogs, but I'm sure it does.

 It doesn't  reallty say how they got the frogs to breed, it just says:

 A scientist at The Manchester Museum in England allowed the two species of endangered Central American leaf frogs housed within the same chamber to interbreed.

 So I am kind of curious about that.

I wonder if they will ever name the new frog or breed more.

here is the link to the article: Scientist Creates One-of-a-Kind Frog

Frog poem

frogs, frogs, everywhere
if you have one as a pet treat it with care

orange,red,green,and blue,
fun and cool and very cute too!

some are big, some are small
there are so many I can't name them all

 I cant list all but here are a few:
Golaith frog, Tomato frog, and Tree frog too!

frogs, frogs, everywhere
if you have one as a pet treat it with care

Save The Frogs Day!

Just a reminder, Save The Frogs Day is in April.

Save The Frogs Day is a day to raise frog awareness. It is from http://savethefrogs.com . This year it is April 29.
If you want to do an event with your school or something, you can register it at: save the frogs day page

** Sorry, but I will not be making a post Friday-Sunday because I will be at a latin convention! YAY! XD

Frog Facts

Frogs are very important to the ecosystem. Here is a list of reasons why.


1.) They eat many pests and keep insect numbers down

2.) They are prey to many animals.

3.) They are used in medicines

4.) They are good bioindicators

5.) They are really cool!

From water to land
Rivers,ponds,swamps,rainforests too
On four legs, hop hop hop!
Great creatures(and cute 2!)
Slippery amphibians   

Please Read This

  Dear readers,
I am very sorry that lately, I have not been making many posts. I have been very busy. From now on, I will be making regular posts.

From, Abby

Re-evolution!

This is really amazing!! There is an article about a frog who went through re-evolution!It's called the Gastrotheca guentheri frog. It is a marsupial frog so that means it has a pouch.  The article says;

A new analysis of the frog family tree reveals that the common ancestor of frogs, which long had lower-jaw teeth, lost them more than 230 million years ago before eventually going extinct.       

Then 15 million years ago, they got lower teeth back! It is really so amazing! you HAVE TO READ IT!!!  





national geographic.com-frogs teeth evolution science

They still dont know why the teeth came back, but I hope thay can find out.

apereantly, frogs aren't the only ones re-evolving...

In general, losing complex features is common in evolution. Humans and frogs have lost their tails, most snakes have lost limbs, and birds and turtles have lost teeth, according to the study.
But in the past eight years or so, more studies have found evidence of these advanced characteristics springing up again—for instance, wings in stick insects and fingers and toes in lizards.

  This is just VERY amazing!

Frog Fiction 3 !!!!

 to see frog fiction part 1: frog fiction part one

 to see frog fiction part 2: frog fiction part 2

Hello, My name is Kaeru and I am a frog. Before I tell you the rest of the story, I want to tell you a little bit about myself. I am three years old, so that means about half of my life is over. I am a male green frog and I live in a swamp. It is very warm during the summers here, and that's when my story takes place...

... I tried searching for my pond again. I wanted to see my kids one last time before I left them, probably forever! On my way I saw the huge loud creatures again, and this time, they had nets! They came twoards me and I jumped into the water. The 2 smaller creatures got out of the larger one with the nets I waited for them to leave. It got really quiet so I lifted my head out of the water.Slam! They almost caught me! I started to hop away, and then they DID catch me! they picked me up. What were they doing?!? they were going to eat me! I knew it! Suddenly they put me down with another frog. I tried to hop away but, BONK! there was an invisable wall!! I asked the other frog," where am I? what will they do to me??? AHHHHH!!!!". "calm down!", said the other frog. "they're just taking you to school. I just got released. calm down already!" "What in the world is a SCHOOL?" Before the other frog could reply, he was picked up and tossed back in to the water, WHAT WAS HAPPENING TO ME??????

Radio show

Mark: Hello and welcome to FLAG radio station! I'm Mark...
Alexa: and I'm Lexi!
both: And we are the hosts of your afternoon tunes!
Mark: as you may already know, FLAG is sponsored by Freddie's Fried Space Frog Legs! Where they don't just serve you frog legs, they serve you SPACE LEGS !
Alexa: Anyway, today is FFSFL's ( short for Freddie's Fried Space Frog Legs) 50th anniversary, and we wanted to share it with YOU!
Mark: Our radio station's name, FLAG, stands for Frog Legs Are Good. It was named that, of course, because FFSFL is all about frog legs!
Alexa:  Ever since 1961, in fact! FLAG hasn't been around quite that long, but we have been cheering FFSFL on all the way starting in 1995.
Mark: Here at FLAG, we are very proud of Freddie's Fried Space Frog Legs, and its history. From 1961, when the restaurant was just a stand on the street corner, to today, when we serve up to 5,000,000 people per day!
Alexa: So that's why we've decided to allow callers to ask us any questions about FFSFL's history.
Mark: We will start taking callers now.
Caller #1: Hi, is this FLAG?
Mark: yes it is, what is your  question?
Caller #1:  Who was the person who created FFSFL?
Alexa: Freddie M. Space, Of course! Born in 1930, Freddie was always good at cooking, but in 1961, he really made it good! Serving up his special spacey frog legs gave him GREAT!
Mark: Ok, thanks for calling! Next caller!
caller #2: Hi, Is this Mike's Pizza?
Alexa: I think you might have the wrong number...
Caller #2: Yeah, Can I have a double cheese pizza, a large soda...
 Alexa: this is a RADIO STATION, not a pizza place..
Caller #2: and could I have some garlic sauce, OH! and put sausage on the pizza too!
Mark: YOU HAVE THE WRONG NUMBER DUDE! HANG UP!
caller #2: WHAT? This ISN'T Mike's Pizza?!?! WHY DIDNT YOU TELL ME?!?! *click! BEEEEEEEEPPPPP!!!!*
Alexa: Well..... that was strange, well, lets take our next caller, shall we?
Caller #3:  WHY are you so proud of MURDERING FROGS?????
Alexa: Mu-murdering f-f-frogs?
Caller #3: Yes! Frogs are EXTREMELY close to being extinct, and you sit here, BRAGING about how many people you serve? what's 5,000,000 times 4? THATS how many frogs you kill a DAY!
Mark: How dare y-
caller #3: How dare I WHAT? tell the truth? I have a message for everyone out there listening;
NEVER eat at FFSFL again! In fact, never eat frog legs again! that is all I have to say. *click! BEEEEEEEP!*
Alexa: Welll... ummmm.... TIMEFORANHOUROFTUNESSPONSEREDBYFFSFL!BYE!

Frogs!

These are just some cool pictures of frogs that I found. I think that it is important to know about other amphibians as well as frogs. alo about frogs lifes'

Facts Of Amphibians!!!!
1) All toads are frogs, but not all frogs are toads
2) Types of amphibians: frogs and toads, newts and salamanders, and caecilians.

3) a cool website about amphibians: National Geographic- Amphibians

4) Amphibian means double life.

5)Photos: Ten Most Wanted "Extinct" Amphibians National Geographic- "most wanted" amphibian photos

6)  people used to think that salamanders were born in fire
7) caecilians look like giant worms!
 8) AMPHIBIANS ARE AWESOME!!!!!

Invasive frog species

Definition of invasive species from Wikipedia: Wikipedia definition

I found an article about invasive frog species in Florida  that they think floated in from Cuba thousands of years ago.  They are the greenhouse frog (Eleutherodactylus planirostris) and the Cuban treefrog (Osteopilus septentrionalis).

Scientists led by Blair Hedges at Pennsylvania State University analysed the frogs' DNA to identify the amphibians' closest native relatives, which would tease out clues about this unusual migration.
The greenhouse frog's ancestry was pinpointed to a small area of western Cuba, while the Cuban treefrog came from at least two sources in Cuba, of which the best bet is a remote peninsula in the western part of the island.
The team believe that the two species came to Florida thousands of years ago, quite possibly by climbing on board vegetation that then floated like a raft across the narrow strait.
Once established in the Keys, the frogs adapted over the years to the colder winters of Florida compared to their Cuban home, and this enabled them to spread northwards when transport and commerce links developed in the mid-20th century.

So The Scientists pretty much think that the frogs migrated to Florida on pieces of wood and other vegitation and when they got there they adapted to Florida's enviroment. Now they are invasive species.

"Both of them could have come across (to Florida) naturally, not by swimming, because these frogs would die pretty quickly in salt water, but by floating across on vegetation," Hedges said in a phone interview.

Many times species become invasive when they are transported to a place where their species have never been, and the other creatures there aren't used to it. They might steal homes, or food from other animals, or eat so much that other animals can't find any food.
Its a cool article: invasive floating frogs

Cool Frog Webinar

Last night from 8 to 9 pm I participated in a webinar from Save The Frogs. It was about helping frogs and why. It was very informative and it had cool pictures.  It was held by Kerry Kriger.   During the webinar, you were allowed to type in questions and every once and a while, he checked if there were any. First he talked about what frogs are and what Save the Frogs is. Then he talked about why people need to save frogs and how we can help. It was really cool. 
If you want to know about other Save the Frogs events, visit:  Save the Frogs event page
If you want to know about Kerry Kriger, visit: Save the Frogs- Kerry Kriger

Frog Fiction 2 !!!!

* If you want too see part one, scroll down untill you see Frog Fiction!!!! or use the link below. *
link to part one:  frog-fiction part one  
 

Hello, My name is Kaeru and I am a frog. Before I tell you the rest of the story, I want to tell you a little bit about myself. I am three years old, so that means about half of my life is over. I am a male green frog and I live in a swamp. It is very warm during the summers here, and that's when my story takes place...

 

 

... As I was thinking about my children (who had just hatched from their eggs) I heard a loud rumbling noise and the croaking of some animal I had never heard before, But they were LOUD.  I panicked. I hopped away as fast as I could. When I looked up, I realized the thing that was making a loud rumbling noise was shiny and grey. It was huge. It was swimming on the water at an unbeliveable speed and there were two other smaller(but still big)creatures on top of it. They were the croaking creatures. they were making noises that were wavy and loud and low and high all at the same time. They were tall and were very colorfull, except for their faces. Their faces were pale and flat and they had tiny eyes and mouths. they had some sort of bump between their mouth and eyes.  Suddenly the big grey creature stopped. The colorfull, pale-faced creatures were standing at the edge of the shiny, grey thing and they were holding sticks with strings going down into the water. One of them jerked the string up and it had a fish on it! it took the fish off and put the string back into the water again! I didn't want to abandon my children yet, but I didn't want to be eaten by the three large creatures either, so I left, at top speed!
I had to find a new home. I decided To make a home at a nice lake a little bit away. I was exhausted from all of the excitement, so I took a nap. When I woke up, the storm had stopped, and I couldn't hear the strange creatures anymore. I decided to check On my kids again. I wasn't sure how long I had been asleep, But was sure it hadn't been long. I tried finding them, but I had forgotten where my old pond was. I was starting to get hungry, so I stopped for a snack. I wited for a bug to pass by and, CHOMP! I wasn't hungry anymore, but i was wondering what what was going to happen with the rest of my life. It was starting to get really hectic, and fast!

Frog Conservation

I feel that lately I have not been making my posts serious enough lately, so today I am going to make a good, long post. The reason I made this blog is to raise awareness about conserving frogs. This post is going to be about how you can help conserve frogs.

One way you can help is donating money to non-profit organizations, like Save The Frogs. Helping frogs doesn't have to cost any money, though. You can help simply by turning off the lights when you aren't using them, or using less water for showers. Just doing little things like that will help frogs, and our environment.
One more thing that you can do is TELL PEOPLE ABOUT FROGS AND THAT THEY NEED HELP. this one is very important. (the other ones are too, of course!) the more people that know about it, the more people there will be who are doing something about it. You could send people a link to this blog, or any other website that deals with frog conservation. You could tell your friends. You could make an announcement at your school or work.
There are so many things you can do to help, and every person makes a difference.

Frog games!

 I found some cool frog games:
froggyville.com  
: A cool frog themed website that has games, jokes, links, and more!

pet games- frog
:  there aren't many frog games on this website, but they are fun!
racing frogs
: You have to be a member to play, you get to dress up a frog, feed it, buy it toys, and help it win races!

Frogs in Haiti

 I found an interesting article about  6 species of frogs that were  found that people thought were extinct!!!!
 
It is soooo amazing!!!! I cant believe that happened! I think that It is really great and that science and frogs will benifit a lot from this. This is a good sign that the enviroment is starting to recover.

John Roach writes:Conservationists have rediscovered six species of frogs in Haiti, offering a ray of hope for the country on the one-year anniversary of the earthquake that left it in shambles.
"I am very wary of highlighting frogs at this time in Haiti. Obviously the country has very pressing needs, but I think ultimately they are a symbol of something more hopeful," said Robin Moore, an amphibian expert with Conservation International who helped lead the expedition that found the frogs.

Among the highlights are a frog that calls like a ventriloquist that was last seen in 1991 and only known from a few individuals; a frog with unusually striking blue sapphire-colored eyes; and a frog that's the size of a grape, one of the smallest amphibians in the world.

  haiti frog article
haiti frog slideshow

Really good definition from wikipedia

Here is a really good definition of: Frog

Frogs are amphibians in the order Anura (meaning "tail-less", from Greek an-, without + oura, tail), formerly referred to as Salientia (Latin salere (salio), "to jump"). Most frogs are characterized by a short body, webbed digits (fingers or toes), protruding eyes and the absence of a tail. Frogs are widely known as exceptional jumpers, and many of the anatomical characteristics of frogs, particularly their long, powerful legs, are adaptations to improve jumping performance. Due to their permeable skin, frogs are often semi-aquatic or inhabit humid areas, but move easily on land. They typically lay their eggs in puddles, ponds or lakes, and their larvae, called tadpoles, have gills and develop in water. Adult frogs follow a carnivorous diet, mostly of arthropods, annelids and gastropods. Frogs are most noticeable by their call, which can be widely heard during the night or day, mainly in their mating season.
The distribution of frogs ranges from tropic to subarctic regions, but most species are found in tropical rainforests. Consisting of more than 5,000 species described, they are among the most diverse groups of vertebrates. However, populations of certain frog species are declining significantly.

 It is very interesting if you want to know anything about frogs. It is a really great source. I Think you should read it. Here are all the parts of it:

• 1 Etymology and terminology
• 2 Taxonomy
• 3 Morphology and physiology
  • 3.1 Feet and legs
  • 3.2 Jumping
  • 3.3 Skin
  • 3.4 Poison
  • 3.5 Respiration and circulation
  • 3.6 Digestion and excretion
  • 3.7 Nervous system
• 4 Natural history
  • 4.1 Life cycle
  • 4.2 Reproduction of frogs
  • 4.3 Parental care
  • 4.4 Call
• 5 Distribution and conservation status
• 6 Evolution
• 7 Uses in agriculture and research
• 8 Cultural beliefs
• 9 See also
• 10 References
  • 10.1 Notes
  • 10.2 Bibliography
• 11 External links

 Link:
wikipedia frog definition

cool frog video

I found a really cool video about poison dart frogs. Don't worry, it's not as gross as my last video.(actually, it's not gross at all!) Anyways, I learned a lot of new things about frogs from this video.

Frog Fiction!!!!

I could see the rain starting to fall. "Plop!Plop!Plop!" It was raining very hard, and I heard thunder. Still, I just sat there, as if I didn't have a care in the world, because something amazing was about to happen....

Hello, My name is Kaeru and I am a frog. Before I tell you the rest of the story, I want to tell you a little bit about myself. I am three years old, so that means about half of my life is over. I am a male green frog and I live in a swamp. It is very warm during the summers here, and that's when my story takes place...

As the storm thundered on and on I thought, "When is it going to happen?! When am I going to see them?! When am I going to leave?!?"  Just then It happened, I looked down in the pond to see little tadpoles swimming up to the surface. "Hooray!!" All of that hard work protecting my babies finally paid off. At last they had hatched! I swelled up with joy at the thought that I now had almost 3,000 children. "In 16 weeks, they will be old enough to leave the water, If only I could see that happen...."

To be continued...

( I got the first 2 quoted sentences from: Neotropical Poison Frogs (Draft 2) )

Frogs are very amazing! especially their poison!

One species, Phyllobates terribilis, has enough toxin in its skin to kill up to 20,000 mice, or 10 humans.

:0 !!!!! WOW!  then the website says...

While other organisms have learned to avoid these tiny forgs, humans have learned to use these frogs for both survival and medicine.

This is what I was leading to. This time I am going to talk about frogs in medicine, not in medical research. Some frogs' poisons and chemicals cane be used in medicine.

A chemical extracted from the skin of an Ecuadorian frog has turned out to be a painkiller 200 times as potent as morphine. The chemical, dubbed epibatidine after the frog (Epipedobates tricolor), seems to work in a different way to current painkillers, blocking hitherto unknown receptors in the brain.

 WOW WOW WOW!!!!!! you learn new things every day! Frogs used  in medicines and research is another reason to conserve frogs. If we lose them, we lose medicine. It will also mess up the enviroment.

(and frogs are soooo cute!!)

Frogs and medicine part one.

 Frogs are often used in medical research and medicines. I really think it is cool that frogs can have such a great impact on science. I mean, who knows what researchers will find out with frogs next!

A new type of antibiotic?

Another perculiarity of frogs which of interest to science is their ability to survive in bacteria-filled water without wounds becoming infected. Studying this property of Xenopus laevis, Michael Zasloff, discovered a new class of antibiotic compounds in 1987.² Their skin contains natural antibiotic peptides which he called 'magainins'. They are active against many disease-causing organisms, and may provide a future solution to the problem of antibiotic-resistant bacteria. They also present new questions about the immune system and whether higher animals have a similar front-line chemical defence against disease.

the place I got that from was a website about animal research. It is a really cool website if you like science(or even if you don't).

Transparent frogs

Recently, the first transparent animal with four legs was developed a Horoshima University in Japan. Japanese brown frogs Rana japonica, were bred, selecting for the recessive trait of light-coloured skin, until fully transparent frogs were born. The internal organs, eggs and other internal parts of the frog can be clearly viewed through the skin, making it a great model for studying many aspects of physiology in a whole, living body. By fusing genes for fluorescent proteins to the frog’s genes, the research team responsible for this development hope to create frogs that glow. Glowing frogs help in the study of specific genes as the frogs will glow, providing a visual indication, when those genes become active.

“Transparent frogs will prove useful as laboratory animals because they make it easier and cheaper to observe the development and progress of cancer, the growth and aging of internal organs, and the effects of chemicals on organs.” Masayuki Sumida, Hiroshima University

 Wow! see through frogs! that's really cool. Not only will they be able to learn about frogs, they will be able to  learn about people and how to treat people with things like organ problems. (I noticed that  it was talking about glowing frogs, that would be pretty cool too! :D ) This frog research is a great thing for frogs, humans, and other animals too. if you want to read more of the (really cool!) website, here is the link:
frogs in medical research 
This research is really helpful and I am really amazed by it. It is also another great example of why frogs need to be saved. If a frog that could have given us a cure to some incurable disease, and it went extinct tomorrow, we might never have the cure again. (part two will be posted tomorrow)

Quiz Answers!!!

Here are the answers to the quiz from yesterday!

1.) The biggest frog in the world is called... Answer: C (Goliath Frog)
The Goliath Frog is about 2 feet long! (by the way, the other frogs I listed in this question weren't real frogs, I just made them up.)

2.) Frogs never eat anything bigger than a mouse. Answer: B (False)
Frogs have been known to eat birds, snakes, other frogs, and even bats!

3.) Some frogs can throw up their stomach when they eat something poisonous. Answer: A (True!)
 here is a video of one doing it!

WARNING! DO NOT WATCH THIS IF YOU ARE GROSSED OUT EASILY!!!

4.) Many frogs have special spit that can make their skin glow in the dark. Answer: B (False)
If frogs really could glow in the dark, it would be very easy for a predator to see them!


5.) A group of frogs are called... Answer: A (an army)

6.) A group of toads are called... Answer: B ( a knot)

(poor answer D, It was never the right one!)

Frog quiz!!

Do you know frogs? answer these questions to find out, the answers will be posted tomorrow.




1.)  The biggest frog in the world is called...
         A) the Colossal Frog
         B) the Macroscopic frog
         C) the Goliath Frog
         D) the Big Frog

2.) Frogs never eat anything bigger than a mouse.
          A) True
          B ) False

3.) Some frogs can throw up their stomach when they eat something poisonous. 
         A) True
         B) False

4.) Many frogs have special spit that can make their skin glow in the dark. 
          A) True
          B)  False

5)  A group of frogs are called...
        A) an army
        B) a knot
        C) a group
        D) a ship

6)  A group of toads are  called...
        A) an army
        B) a knot
        C) a group
        D) a ship

Time for some comics!

(the bottom comic was from Spot the Frog)

Cute frog of the day!!