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Expand Your Knowledge of Frogs with These 12 Froggy Facts!
- Frogs can only see in black and white.
- A group of frogs is called an army, while a group of toads is called a knot.
- Although frogs are excellent swimmers, most will eventually drown if they don’t have access to some form of land. They actually prefer living in moist matter like leaves.
- Some frogs in Central America and Southeast Asia have heavily webbed feet that they can spread widely to help them glide or parachute away from predators.
- Most frogs breathe through their skin, mouth, and lungs, while tadpoles breathe through their skin and gills.
- Frogs normally eat insects, worms, spiders, and occasionally mice or small snakes. Their prey must be living.
- Frogs don’t drink, but absorb, water from their surroundings through their skin.
- Frogs come in all the colors of the rainbow, and most of the brightly colored ones are colored that way to warn predators that they are poisonous.
- Frogs living in very cold environments may hibernate over the winter. Some frogs use strong concentrations of glycose (sugar) as antifreeze. The sugar also gives the organs energy to get going again upon thawing.
- A frog's tongue is attached at the front of the mouth instead of at the rear, and is covered with a sticky substance which it uses to catch insects.
- Certain species of frogs may call at a certain "private" frequency which is not used by other nearby frogs - the call is transmitted within a separate sound range.
- Frogs may also be "tuned" to hear certain frequencies very clearly so that they may hear potential mates over the calls of other frogs.
