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  • Frequelty Asked Questions About Frogs

    Just some interesting fun facts....


    Frequently Asked Questions

    Ecology
    Q. Where do frogs live?
    A.
    They live near lakes, ponds, and streams. This habitat helps keep their skin moist, which is necessary to their survival.

    Q. What do frogs eat?
    A.
    Frogs are carnivores. They eat other animals, typically bugs and worms.

    Q. How do frogs hunt for food?
    A.
    Except for an occasional blink, the hunting frog sits almost motionless. It waits for a meal to fly by, then snares it with a long, sticky tongue.

    Q. How does a frog use its tongue?
    A.
    When a fly or bug flits by, the frog hurls out its sticky tongue, snares the prey, and curls its tongue back in to swallow the meal. It's similar to casting out a fish line, then reeling in a fish.

    Q. How is a frog's tongue different from most animal tongues?
    A.
    It is attached in the front instead of the back, just the opposite of most tongues.

    Q. Why do so many frogs come out onto roads when it rains?
    A.
    Frogs need to keep their amphibian skin moist. They come out to move over landwithout drying out when it's rainy and wet. They come out on rainy days or nights to forage.

    Q. Where do frogs go in winter?
    A.
    Different species have different stategies for surviving winter. Northern leopard frogs, for example, pass the winter at the bottom of deeper lakes, far beneath the ice. They settle quietly on the lake bottom in deep water. They stay concealed behind a log or other debris to escape predators. Other types of frogs may hibernate under leaf litter.

    Q. How do frogs survive the winter in cold places?
    A.
    The frogs hibernate in burrows or bury themselves in mud. Toads and frogs are cold-blooded and their body processes slow down as the outside temperature drops. This is why you sometimes find frogs sunning themselves in the spring. Their body temp needs to rise for them to move well. Frogs' bodies have some natural antifreeze chemicals built into them, but a few kinds of frogs who live in especially cold climates can even survive being frozen solid.

    Q. Do frogs migrate?
    A.
    Frogs migrate when they go between their shallow summer breeding ponds and deeper lakes where they overwinter. Sometimes they have to cross busy roads to do this, which results in many frog deaths during spring and fall migrations.

    Q. How do frogs time their migration from summer breeding swamps to winter lakes?
    A.
    They move during rainy or high humidity days or evenings. Frogs stay out of the deep lakes until they are ready to hibernate, as hungry fish would gladly make a meal out of them. Frogs that arrive early hang out in the vegetation along the shore. Frogs that arrive later, when the weather is colder, swim way out to deep water, ready to begin hibernating.

    Q. Do frogs hibernate?
    A. Frogs hibernate to escape the freezing temperatures of winter. Their heartbeats and breathing slow, their body temperature drops to nearly match the outside temperature, and they pass the time in a state of dormancy or torpor. Aquatic frogs hibernate under water and take in oxygen from the water through their skin. They spend most of the winter lying on top of the bottom's mud or partially buried in mud. At times, they may even slowly swim around. Terrestrial frogs, including the spring peeper, normally hibernate on land. Spring peepers, for example, are not adept at digging; instead they find deep holes or cracks in logs or rocks, or simply burrow down in the leaf litter
    as far as they can.

    Q. If frogs need to have wet skin, how do they survive during very hot or very dry spells?
    A.
    During extensive periods of heat or drought, frogs keep from losing water by digging a burrow in the ground and entering a state of estivation — a period of dormancy or torpor.

    Q. Why do frogs sun themselves?
    A.
    This behavior is called basking. When temperatures are cool, frogs need to bask in sunshine to warm up enough to be able to move. That's because they are cold-blooded, which means their body temperature changes with the external temperature.

    Q. What is a frog's role in the ecosystem?
    A.
    Frogs eat insects, small fish, and other small aquatic and terrestrial animals. In turn they provide food for fish, some large insects, snakes, lizards, larger frogs, birds, and small carnivorous and omnivorous mammals.

  • #2
    thanks for sharing. Do you have an interest in frogs? Have you met many princes who end up being frogs?

    Nice informative article.

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    • #3
      Originally posted by ayub View Post
      thanks for sharing. Do you have an interest in frogs? Have you met many princes who end up being frogs?

      Nice informative article.
      Yes, i find them very interesting creatures with their slimy backs and skinny legs.
      Frogs like to eat other frogs.... its disgusting! i remember a long time ago around 8th grade we had taken frogs from the pond and kept them in tanks for our biology class. And one day we saw the big frog with frog legs coming out of it's mouth and it was trying to swallow the other frog and the dead frog (i think it was dead) was going in and out of the big frog's mouth because the frog couldn't swallow it.... it scarred me for life.

      LOL yeah, i've met many princes who have turned out to be frogs, but no frogs that turned out to be princes
      Last edited by Gulalai; 11-06-2010, 06:31 PM. Reason: typo

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      • #4
        oh i almost forgot....








        EWWWWWWWW!

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        • #5
          let me add another question and answer

          Q. what is the most common name for a frog?

          A. ayub

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          • #6
            gully, how could you, knowing that I was living in your pond...put my brothers and sisters in one of yyour schools animal testing labs? How cruel. And that frog eaten..was my dear uncle..*sob*

            Those pics are disturbing, as a frog I just can't look at them...it's a massacre...a darn frog eat frog world out there.

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            • #7
              Originally posted by ayub View Post
              gully, how could you, knowing that I was living in your pond...put my brothers and sisters in one of yyour schools animal testing labs? How cruel. And that frog eaten..was my dear uncle..*sob*

              Those pics are disturbing, as a frog I just can't look at them...it's a massacre...a darn frog eat frog world out there.
              LOL we didn't do anything ot them... and we set them free after a few months... and we put the cannibal frog in a separate fish bowl, alone.. hahah
              RIP to your uncle

              lol


              YouTube - Ganja-frog eat frog world
              ewwwwww

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              • #8
                LOL! its funny, i just finished doing my unit on Class Amphibians. Frogs and toads are quite interesting if i must say.

                Here are some more random info on them:

                * They belong to the Order Anura.
                * They do not have a post anal tail
                * As everyone already knows, they have a good muscular tongue.
                * They have both small and large intestines.
                * They have movable eyelids and tear glands to moisturize and protect their eyes in air.

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                • #9
                  oh yes i did,

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                  • #10
                    Ayub, was so innocent an easily led. He was too trusting and kind.

                    Okay go to world cup cricket thread. Cuz u got three wickets today. Congratulate me.

                    Poor ayub. I miss him. Rip bro.

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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by JunaidKhan View Post
                      Ayub, was so innocent an easily led. He was too trusting and kind.

                      Okay go to world cup cricket thread. Cuz u got three wickets today. Congratulate me.

                      Poor ayub. I miss him. Rip bro.
                      tell me about it.. i miss him too
                      he was not too trusting and kind go away ayub hater. i bet you ate him or something.

                      who got what? whats a wicket? :S

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                      • #12
                        Ayub got run over or something. Poor fella. I heard some pari name gullygully dumped him or something so he ran away with broken heart. But not sure if it's true could be rumors.

                        I got 3 wickets in my warm up match for world cup cricket 2011. That's what.

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                        • #13
                          Originally posted by JunaidKhan View Post
                          Ayub got run over or something. Poor fella. I heard some pari name gullygully dumped him or something so he ran away with broken heart. But not sure if it's true could be rumors.

                          I got 3 wickets in my warm up match for world cup cricket 2011. That's what.
                          looooooooool omg really?? Last time i saw him he was pretty upset.. something about a tbag and how he broke ayubs heart.. dunno. We're hearing two different stories :S i also heard he went to egypt.... the frogs down at the pond told me that.

                          oh... right... congrats.. ? LOL CONGRATS (i think?)

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                          • #14
                            Where is ayub the frog.
                            Ka Kabul da ka ghazni de ka Paktiya ka Kandahar, Afghanistan dey tola PASHTANO MOR OH PLAAR.



                            Shlombay= the socrates of Pashtuns

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                            • #15
                              Originally posted by Shlombay View Post
                              Where is ayub the frog.
                              he is hoping around in my village in the morning

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