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