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See Fantastic Frogs in 15 Fun Photographs
While some frogs call the great outdoors on six continents (excluding Antarctica) home, others are domesticated, kept as pets ...
Many scientists believe the red-eyed tree frog developed its vivid scarlet peepers ... These iconic rain-forest amphibians sleep by day stuck to leaf-bottoms with their eyes closed and body ...
They’ll be back out the next day and the night after, but in a different area of Haiku as they work to stop the spread of the coqui frog. But while the ear-splitting call of this tiny tree frog ...
The only true tree frog of New York, the gray treefrog ... This is the wood frog, the first of the New York amphibians to make an appearance each year. Wood frogs hibernate in the leaf litter of the ...
This story appears in the March 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. These frogs put the “group” in “group sex”—and that helps them thrive. Of all vertebrates, gray foam-nest tree ...
Male frogs make a “distinct” sound and call “from leaves or grasses” in the evening. A breeding pair of Cannatella’s tree frogs were kept in captivity and laid a clutch “with 190 eggs ...