Monday, May 6, 2013

Glass Frog

A Glass Frog is a frog that looks like it is a window on it's belly. You would see some of the inside parts of the frog. The back of the frogs are green with white or black dots. They have big eyes with horizontal pupils, they have webbed fingers and toes. The also are wet with slimy smooth skin. The family of these frogs is Centrolenidae. These frogs live in rainforest in Central and South America. They also live on leaves above forest streams and rivers. Glass Frogs are small frogs, like they are 3 to 7.5 cemtimetres (1.2 to 3.0 in) in length. When the females lay eggs, they would lay between 10-80 eggs on a leaf. The male take care of the eggs at daytime. When the eggs hatch, the tadpoles will go straight into water. The food that glass frogs eat are small insects, fish and other frogs. The predators of glass frogs are snakes, birds and large mammals.  This is some things about Glass Frogs.

Desert Spadefoot Toad

The Desert Spadefoot Toads live in the desert at Mexico, southern Arizona, Baja California, Texas, and parts of Oklahoma. They are born in the water. These frogs have moist skin. They are orange, black, green or black and yellow. They lay up to 3,000 eggs.  Desert spadefoot toads live underground, they do not need to drink any water. They hunt insects like beetles, grasshoppers, katydids, and crickets. They can stay underground for a year without food or water.

Spotted Shovel-Nosed Frog

Spotted Shovel-nosed Frogs are mostly found in dry grasslands. Their family is Hemisus. Their length is 8 centimetres.  They have short legs, round body, and the heads are small and narrow with a hard, nose.  They live most of their life underground. The female will dig underground for a safe place to put their eggs. The insects that they would dig or look for is termites and earthworms. They are burrowing frogs also. They live in South Africa.

Reticulated Poison Frog

The Reticulated Poison Frog is in the Dendrobatidae family. The countries they live in is Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru. The habitats they would live in is trees, and sometimes on the ground in the rainforests. They have poison skin so they can be protected from their predators. The food they eat are insects. These frogs grow up to the size of 20 millimetres.

Mexican Burrowing Toad

The Mexican Burrowing Toads are in the Rhinophrynidae family. They live in southern Texas, Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica. They grow to the length of 8 cm, their eyes are small, pointy nose, and short powerful legs. They use their legs for digging. They live underground. The food that they eat are ants and termites. They will come out of underground after heavy rain.

Holy Cross Frog

The Holy Cross Frogs are in the Myobatrachidae family. They are also called Crucifix Frogs. They live in Australian, western New South Wales, and Queensland. The colors of them is bright yellow, with a cross on their back. The cross has black and red dots. They are small and very round frogs.  Their noses are blurt, the legs and feet are small. The length of the males are 2.5 in. The length of the females are 2.7 in.

Budgett's Frog



The Budgett's Frogs are in the Leptodactylidae family. They live in Paraguay, Argentina, and Bolivia in South America. The color of this frog is olive green. The size of this frog is 4 to 5 inches. They have a round, flat body. They don't have teeth. The habitats they live in are streams, ponds, marshes, and slow moving rivers.

Canyon Tree Frog



The Canyon Tree Frogs are in the Hylidae. They live in New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, Texas and Colorado. The length of these frogs is 2-2.25 inches. The colors of these frogs is brown, grey-brown, or grey-green. The habitats they live in is limestone. They are mostly carnivorous. The females can lay 100 or more.

Turtle Frog

The Turtle Frogs are in the Myobatrachidae family. They have small heads, short limbs and round bodies. They are 1.8 in. long.  They live in Geraldton and Fitzgerald River in the Perth region, West Australia. They eat termites.

Mini Frog

The Mini Frogs are like the tiniest frogs on earth. They live in the forests of Southeast Asian island of Burneo, and New Guinea. They were found near a mountain in Kubah National Park. The size of these frogs are 7.7 mm. They live under leaves on the ground in jungles.

Seychelles Frog

The Seychelles Frogs are the length of 20 mm. They live on forest floors. The females lay 6-15 eggs in a hidden, damp nest. The colors of them are yellowish-brown with black spots. The females grow to about .8 inches and the males grow to about .6 inches. To me, the skin looks gold.

Wailing Frog

Wailing Frog is a tree frog. The family they're in is called Hylidae. They live in grassland and on the edge of shallow water of freshwater. They live in far north of Western Australia. These frogs are brown on their back, the size of them is 5 cm, short legs and rough skin. The fingers are unwebbed but the toes are half webbed.

Fowler's Toad

Fowler's toads have rough skin. The colors of them can be brown, gray, or red with large spots. The color of their belly would be white. The feet and toes are not webbed. The size of the adults are 2-3 inches. The places that these toads live in are the southeastern of North Carolina, mostly in the Coastal Plain of South Carolina and Georgia, and the Florida peninsula. They like to move in the daytime when its warm out, rainy weather, or otherwise moist conditions. The food that these toads eats are ants, beetles, and earthworms. The young frogs eats flies, aphids, and springtails. When the females lay their eggs, there will be 4,000-5,000 eggs. Some can lay 10,000. The predators that eat these frogs are eastern hognose snakes, loggerhead shrikes, american bitterns, bullfrogs, and raccoons. The animals that eat the eggs or the tadpoles are some fish, salamanders, and some kind of insects. These are some weird things about Fowler's toads. 

Pink Bellied Harlequin Frog

 Pink Bellied Harlequin Frogs lives in rainforest at French Guiana.

Thursday, April 11, 2013

African bullfrog

A African bullfrog is found in Angola, Botswana, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe. Its habitat are dry savanna, moist savanna, dry shrubland, freshwater lakes, freshwater marshes, arable land, pastureland, canals and ditches. These are large frogs. The males weigh 1.4 kg and the females weigh 2 kg, so the females are bigger than the male ones. The way they look is that they have a chubby round body and big broad head with big mouth. They have no web on their front feet but have some webs on their back feet. The skin is bumpy and olive green color, but yellow belly and throat. The African bullfrogs are carnivorous and voracious eaters, they eat insects, small rodents, reptiles, small birds and other amphibians. The sound that they make is croaking sounds. These frogs can live 35 years or more.

Amazon Milk Frog

Amazon Milk Frogs are also called Mission Golden-eyed Tree Frogs or Blue Milk Frogs. These tree frog are light grayish color with a pattern of brown and black banding. Their skin is bumpy. The males are smaller than the females. They have large toe pads so they can climb. They live in the tropical rainforest canopy at Northern South America in the countries Colombia, Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, French, Guiana, Suriname, Peru and Venezuela. These frogs can be poisonous, live up to 25 years. The female frogs can lay 2,500 egg on a rainy season from November to May. The food that they eat is insects, spiders, small amphibian and other invertebrates.

Southern Toadlet

The Southern Toadlet live in southern in Victoria and Australia, eastern of Tasmania and Flinders Island. The habitats they live in is temperate forests, temperate grassland, rivers, intermittent rivers, swamps, and intermittent freshwater marshes. When the female frogs lay their eggs, they lay out 200 eggs on a shallow nest. The tadpoles are 20 mm. The body length is 2 to 3 cm, they are dark brown to olive green with black warty blotches on the top. The belly of these frogs are black and white marbled with a orange on the throat and limbs.

Dainty Green Tree Frog

The Dainty Green Tree Frogs are in the Hylidae family. They are graceful tree frogs, like leaf-green frogs with a yellowish-green stripe over the eye. The fingers, toes and upper arms are a bright lemon yellow. They live in Cape York Peninsula south to Gosford, New South Wales, and the southern coast of New Guinea. The habitats they live in are moist forest, or woodland, marshland and around ditches.

Gray's Tree Frog

The Gray's Tree Frog are in the Hylidae family. They live in eastern North America. The size of these frogs are 2 inches. The food they eat are crickets, moths, flies, waxworms, small silkworms and earthworms. They live in Minnesota at the United States near swamps or shallow wetland in forests. They climb trees and shrubs. The colors of these frogs are gray and creamy white. The female lays 30 eggs.

Hourglass Tree Frog

The Hourglass Tree Frogs have short stubby faces. The colors on these frogs are dork golden yellow with large brown markings all around the frogs. The can live 3 years or less. The females are the length of 35 millimeters and the males are the length of 27 millimeters. They live in lowlands on the Caribbean and Pacific slopes of Costa Rica. The females can lay up to 15-296 eggs.

Sunset Frog

The Sunset Frogs are in the Myobatrachidae family. They live in south-west of Western Australia. The length of the females is 31-36 mm, and the males length is 29.5-34.8 mm. The colors of these frogs are dark-purple on the back, and orange on the belly. The fingers and toes are webbed. The habitats they live in are the moist peat swamps, and high rainfall areas. The females lay less than 200 eggs.

Ornate Horned Frog

The Ornate Horned Frogs are also called the Pac-Man Frogs. Their colors are tan and brown, green, and albino. Their habitats are tropical and montane rainforest. The places they live in are Northern Argentina, Uruguay, and the Rio Grande do Sul region of Brazil. They have plump body shape, Their mouths are as wide as their heads, and they have wide pink fleshy tongue. Their foods are other frogs, lizards, snakes, rodents, birds, and large insects. They sleep with their eyes open, and they do not jump

Cinnamon Tree Frog

The Cinnamon Tree Frogs are orange frogs with a lot of white dots. The habitats they live in is tropical forest. The countries they live in is Southeast Asia, Borneo, Malaysia, the Philippines and Thailand. They hunt for insects in shrubsand low tree branches.

Marbled Reed Frog

The Marbled Reed Frogs are in the Hyperolildae family. They live in Central, Eastern and Southen Africa. The size is 25-40mm. The food they eat are crickets, mini-mealworms, flies, waxworm, small locust, caterpillars, fruitflies, and moths.

Tomato Frog

The Tomato Frogs are in the Microhylidae family. The place they live in is Madagascar. The colors of these frogs are yellowish-orange to deep red. The females are the length of 4 in, and the males are the length of 2 to 3 in.  The bellies of these frogs are more yellowish, and the throat sometimes have black dots. The food they eat are small insects and invertebrates.

Hairy Frogs

Hairy Frogs are in the Arthroleptidae family. These frogs are also called horror frogs. They live in West Africa. The countries they live in is Cameroon, Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, and Nigeria. The habitats they live in are the fast-flowing rivers in lowland rainforest, and at the foot of small waterfalls. The water they live in is freshwater. They are 4.3 inches.

Rain Frog

Rain frogs  is in the Microhylidae family. They live in forest,  grassland, and rural gardens in South Africa, Asia, and Africa. The upper of the bodies are brown with lighter brown to cream patches on the side and the back. Their length can be 2 cm to 10 cm. They have a round body with a short, narrow head. Their eyes are large, their faces are flat, and they have a narrow mouth. Their limbs are short and stumpy.

Tiger-Striped Leaf Frog

The Tiger-Striped Leaf Frog live in tropical rain forest, Rio Tuichi, Madidi National Park, and Bolivia. The belly of these frogs look like tigers. Their skin looks waxy and smooth. They like to explore at night, even during the day they're hard to find. They are mostly found on branches and leaves.

Lace-eyed Tree Frog

The Lace-Eyed Tree Frogs live in Papua, New Guinea.

Marsupial Frog

The Marsupial Frogs are the of 1.5 to 2.5 inches. The males and females have pouches to hold the eggs. The females have the pouch on their back. The food they eat are arthropods and insects. They are in the Amphignathodontidae family. They live in Central America and South America. They can be found in vegetation within montane forests,  montane meadows, agricultural fields and rocky hillsides, or other located near stagnant to slow-moving waters.

Shoemaker Frog

The Shoemaker Frogs are in the Myobatrachidae family. They are round, short-legged frog with a smooth, white belly and shiny golden marked with brown or black blotches. They live in Western Australia. The habitats they live in a temperature shrub land, tropical or subtropical dry lowland grassland, freshwater, and hot desert. They can be found in the low-lying areas east and north of Hamelin Pool and north  to the Wooramel River. When the females lays eggs, they lay about 200-1000 eggs.

Northern Sandhill Frog

The Northern Sandhill Frogs are in the Myobatrachidae family. They are small frogs at the size of 28 to 33 millimeters. It is a burrowing frog with short, strong legs. The color of these frogs are dark grey, and white to brown. The head is triangular shape, and the body is flat. They live in Western Australian coast. The females lay 10 eggs in March and April about 1 m below ground.

Red and Yellow Mountain Frog

The Red and Yellow Mountain Frog are in the Myobatrachidae family. They live in Australia, and their habitats are tropical or subtropical moist lowland forest and rivers.

Desert Rain Frog

The Desert Rain Frogs family is Microhylidae. They live at Namibia and South Africa. The habitats they live in are tropical dry shrubland and sandy shores. They are small frogs with bulging eyes, a short snout, short limbs, spade-like feet and webbed toes. Their skin color is yellowish-brown.

Titicaca Water Frog

The Titicaca Water Frog lives in Lake Titicaca Basin in the Andes of Bolivia and Peru. The size of this frog is 50 cm and the weight is 1 kg. These frogs are also endangered species.

Rainbow Burrowing Frog

The Rainbow Burrowing Frog live in south central Madagascar. The maximum size they are is 1 to 1 1/2 . The food they eat are small crickets and fruit flies. They live on plants, rocks, and logs. The females are bigger and heavier than the males. The females lay about 500 eggs.

Muller's Termite Frog

The Muller's Termite Frogs are in the Microhylidae family.  They have small mouths on pointy snouts that serve them ants and termites. The length of these frogs are 40-50 mm. The colors of the skin is olive-brown on the back with white dots on the sides, legs and arms. The skin is also smooth.

Saturday, March 2, 2013

Cape Rain Frog



The Cape Rain Frog are in the Microhylidae family. They live in South Africa, Lesotho, and Swaziland.

Friday, January 25, 2013

Tonkin Bug-Eyed Frog

The Tonkin Bug-Eyed frogs are in the Rhacophoridae family. The females are the size of 6, 7-9 cm, and the males are the size of 6, 4-7, 2cm. They live in Northern Vietnam (Mao Son og Tam Dao mountains) in southern China. The habitats they live in are steep rocky limestone cliffsin primary evergreen forest. They eat insects and other small animals.

Saturday, January 19, 2013

Barking Frog

The Barking Frogs are 3.75 inches in length. The colors of Barking Frogs are olive-gray's to rusky-gray. The places that Barking Frogs live in is Santa Rita, Patagonia, Huachuca, Pajarito, Peloncillo, Mule, Whetstone, Baboquivari, and Quinlan mountains of Arizona. The habitats they live in are outcrops, caves, rocky sloves in scrubby oak or pine-oak, outcrops of limestones, rhyolite, granite, and holes. The food they eat is cricket, grasshoppers, katydids, silverfish, and scorpions. The female frogs lay 50-76 eggs.

Stock Footage Amazon Leaf Frog

Stock Footage Amazon Leaf Frogs look like they have yellow bellies, and dark green skin with a lot of white dots on top. They like to climb on trees and leafs.

Surinam Toad

The Surinum Toads live in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad, Tobago, and Venezuela. The habitats they would live in are tropical moist lowland forests, swamps, and freshwater marshes. These toads are like leafs because they look and may feel flat. The color of them is mottled brown, the sizes of them are 20cm (8in). They have minute eyes, no teeth and no tougue. The females lay 3-10 eggs.

Fleischmann's Glass Frog

The Fleischmann's Glass Frog are in the Centrolenidae family. They live in Belize, Colombia, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, and Suriname. Their habitats are subtropical or tropical moist montane forest, rivers and moist mountains.

Crested Forest Toad

Crested Forest Toads live in tropical rainforests, swamps, savannas, and grasslands. They live in Peru.

Pinocchio Nosed Frog

The Pinocchio Nosed Frogs are found in Foja Mountains, Papua, and Indonesia. They live in tropical forest around the mountains. There noses look just like pinocchio's nose.

Seep Frog

The Seep Frogs are in the Ranidae family. They live in Brunei, Indonesia, and Malaysia. The habitats they live in are moist lowland forest, sobtropical or tropical moist montane forests, intermittent rivers, and intermittent freshwater marshes.

Purple Frog

The Purple Frogs are in the Nasikabatrachidae family. The live in Western Ghats in India. They are also called Pignose Frog.  They have smooth, dark purple skin and round body. The habitat they live in is evergreen forest, and freshwater.

Chachi Tree Frog

 The Chachi Tree Frogs live in Choco Rainforest and Silhouette.

Atelopus Frog




The Atelopus Frogs are in the Bufonidae family. They live in Central and South America, Costa Rica, and Bolivia. They also live in streams.