In Nature
Adult frogs cannot do this.
What is breathe underwater?
Since they have lungs they can drown if they fill with water.
This Muppet was the host of the Muppet show was 5 seasons.
Who is Kermit the Frog?
This global sporting event happens during leap years.
What is the Summer Olympics?
Frogs are obligate carnivores, meaning this.
What is the cannot survive without meat in their diet?
There are this many species of frogs?
500, 1000, 5000 or 10,000
What is 5000?
New species of frogs are being discovered each year. However, even as these new species are being discovered, increasing numbers of previously existing frog species are going extinct. This is thought to be a consequence of the frog's extreme sensitivity to changes in their environment. For this reason, many scientists consider frogs an important "biological indicator" of the health (or lack of health) of the Earth's ecosystems.
Wood frogs have adapted to their environment by doing this.
What is allows themselves to freeze in colder months and thaw out once spring comes?
This tale dates back to Roman times, but the best known version is from the Grimms Brothers.
What is the Frog Prince?
People born on a leap day are referred to as....
What are "leaplings"
Eaten for thousands of years, frog legs are a national dish of this country.
What is France?
In France over 4,000 tonnes of frog legs are consumed every year.
This frog is considered to be the most toxic in the world.
What is the golden poison frog?
A native of Columbian rainforests, its skin contains enough poison to kill 20,000 mice or 100 adult humans. Just two-tenths of a microgram of the batrachotoxin that it produces is lethal in the human blood stream. Traditionally, Embre and Choco Indians from Columbia have used this powerful poison to treat their blowgun darts. The darts are wiped over the back of the golden poison frog after heating it over a fire. Once a dart is poisoned, it will remain lethal for up to two years.
As a general rule, the frog life cycle consists of 4 main stages.
What is egg, tadpole, froglet and adult?
It generally takes frogs 2 to 4 years to become an adult frog.
This 1971 song featured a bullfrog called Jeremiah.
What is Joy to the World?
By Three Dog Night
The original lyrics was Jeremiah was a prophet - but no one liked it.
This Roman Emperor started leap years.
Who is Julius Caesar?
The first leap year was in 46 B.C.
This country is the world's largest exporter of frog meat.
What is Indonesia?
Exporting more than 5,000 tonnes of frog meat each year
There have been rising concerns that some of the frog meat are not coming from frog farms but from wild frog populations.
The African claw frog was once used for this?
What is a pregnancy test?
A pregnant woman's urine has a very high concentration of the hormone hCG (human chorionic gonadotropin) which, it just so happens, will induce a female African clawed frog to lay hundreds of tiny transparent eggs within a matter of days. In order to conduct the test, a woman's urine was simply injected into the female frog, and if it began to lay eggs then she was pregnant.
A group of frogs is called this.
What is an army?
A group of toads is called a knot.
In ancient Egypt the frog-headed goddess Hekt was a symbol of this.
What is fertility and birth?
In Greece, it was believed to be bad luck, do this during a leap year.
What is get married?
Frogs living in forests with high frog diversity may do this.
What is they may eat smaller frogs or their own tadpoles?
When the Darwin's frog tadpoles hatch, the male frog does this.
What is swallows the tadpoles?
He keeps the tiny amphibians in his vocal sac for about 60 days to allow them to grow. He then proceeds to cough up tiny, fully formed frogs.
Not all frog can do this.
What is jump?
While most long-legged species can jump a distance greater than 20 times their body length, those with shorter back legs can hop, crawl, or walk
Jeremy Fisher was a character in this author's children's books?
Who is Beatrix Potter?
Leap years aren't the same around the globe. In China they do this every three years.
What is add an entire month?
Frogs naturally shed their skin and may do this with it.
What is eat their own skin?
This process is called sloughing.
Skin contains nutrients and protein.
When a frog swallows it prey, it does this.
What is blinks?
Which pushes its eyeballs down on top of the mouth to help push the food down its throat.