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10 true facts about frogs?
- Frogs come in more than 5,000 different kinds.
- Frogs don’t need to drink water because their skin soaks it up.
- You can hear the sound of some frog species from a distance of a half-mile. The call of a frog is unique to that species only.
- Frogs can jump as high as a person can jump 30 metres, or 20 times their own length.
- Frogs and other amphibians are great biological indicators of the health of ecosystems because their skin is porous, they live in two stages (as aquatic larvae and on land as adults), and they are in the middle of the food chain.
- In Egypt, the frog is a sign of life and fertility, and Heget is a frog-goddess who represents fertility in Egyptian mythology.
- The female Surinam toad can lay up to 100 eggs, which are then spread out over her back. Her skin grows around the eggs, making a honeycomb-like structure around them. After 12 to 20 weeks, fully grown young toads push through the skin on the back of the adult toad.
- A frog’s skin falls off all at once about once a week. Most of the time, the frog eats the old, dead skin after it pulls it off.
- When the tadpoles of a Darwin’s frog hatch, a male frog eats them. He keeps the small frogs and toads in his vocal sac for about 60 days so they can grow. He then starts to cough up tiny frogs that are all grown up.
- When a frog swallows its food, it blinks, which pushes its eyeballs down on top of its mouth to help move the food down its throat.
- A flock of birds, a herd of cows, and an army of frogs are all different terms for the same thing.
- Among other Facts about frogs is the skin of glass frog. The skin of the glass frog is clear, so you can see its organs, bones, and muscles through it. You can watch its heart beat and its stomach break down food.
- In Indonesia, there is a frog that doesn’t have lungs. Instead, it breathes through its skin. The waxy monkey frog’s neck makes wax, which it then rubs all over its body with its legs. The wax keeps the frog’s skin from getting too dry in the sun.
- They have their eyes and nose at the top of their heads. So, even though most of their bodies are underwater, they can still see and breathe. Frogs can see in front of them, to the sides, and even a little bit behind them because their eyes stick out. Their eyes also help them chew and swallow. When a frog blinks, it pulls its eyes down to the roof of its mouth to force food down its throat. Bugs, spiders, worms, slugs, larvae, and sometimes small fish are some of the most common things that frogs eat.
- Many kinds of frogs take care of their young. In order to keep their eggs moist, some poison dart frogs deposit their eggs on the forest floor.
- Some female frogs check on their young (tadpoles) often, and if they don’t have enough food, they lay unfertilized eggs for them to eat.
- Asian tree frogs build their nests in trees above the water. When the eggs hatch, the tadpoles fall right into the water.
We hope you enjoyed these interesting facts about frogs.
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Parvaiz Yousuf is a senior SEO writer and editor with an experience of over 6 years, who also doubles up as a researcher. With an MSc zoology degree under his belt and possessing complete Search Engine Optimization (SEO) knowledge, he works as a science journalist for a US-based website and Asian Scientist (A Singapore-based magazine). He also works as Director of Wetland Research Centre, Wildlife Conservation Fund YPJK since 2018. Besides, he has several publications to his name on cancer biology and biochemistry in some reputed journals such as Nature & International Journal of Molecular Sciences, & magazines such as Science Reporter, BUCEROS BNHS, and has an abiding interest in ornithology. He also worked as a Research Associate for JK Policy Institute.
