| Frogs found in the vicinity of the refuge's oil fields had missing or misshapen hind legs and feet, and missing eyes. |
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| My fish is as mad as a box of Frogs, he just swims at top speed around the tank and then lies shagged out on the bottom for ages. |
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| Frogs and newts have already been attracted to three new natural spring ponds at Abbey Meads School. |
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| Frogs have filled the night with croaks, yaps, grunts, chirps, trills, and warbles since the Age of Dinosaurs. |
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| Frogs have radically truncated vertebral columns, relatively large hindlimbs, and a well-developed array of epaxial musculature. |
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| Frogs in deep hibernation take longer to emerge to answer the call of the spring mating season. |
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| Frogs and toads croak out a strange mating ritual in a concrete drainage ditch. |
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| Frogs and herons also made an appearance and in spring the otters appeared. |
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| Frogs croaked at intervals, and other night creatures scurried over the leaves. |
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| Frogs eat a number of different garden pests including slugs, ants and other bugs. |
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| Frogs were not symbols of death but, on the contrary, of rebirth and renewal, because of its remarkable metamorphosis of egg into tadpole and from tadpole into frog. |
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| The comic playwright Aristophanes also used myths, in The Birds and The Frogs. |
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| National pride is fine but not when we express it in violence or when we abuse our neighbours as Frogs, Krauts and Eyeties. |
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| The Horned Frogs are now fourth after escaping from Texas Tech with a victory. |
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| Living Rivers is home to fascinating species including Red-Bellied Piranhas, Leaf Cutter Ants, Blue Poison Arrow Frogs and Emperor Scorpions. |
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| Assessing Ecosystem Health and Pollution in Saginaw County, Michigan Using Parasite-Host Relationships in Two Species of Ranid Frogs. |
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| Even with his worst game of the season, Florence, who went 12-for-19 with 289 yards against the Horned Frogs, still leads the country's top passing offense. |
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| Apart from Humboldt Penguins and Caiman Crocodiles, the animals featured here include Piranhas, Giant Spider Crabs, Water Rats, Giant Catfish, Clown fish and Dart Frogs. |
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| They will also prey on crayfish, frogs, tadpoles, and other aquatic dwellers. |
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| Your fruits and flowers, your birds, your tree frogs wakening me every night, man I have to return just for that! |
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| Jaw prehension is common in aquatic frogs, often in combination with abortive tongue protraction, but suction feeding is present only in pipids. |
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| In the wild, its main food supply consists of small wallabies and kangaroos, birds, lizards and probably frogs and crayfish. |
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| Toads can be distinguished from frogs by their heavier build and brown, warty skin with females being larger than males. |
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| The water opossum eats primarily crayfish, shrimp, fish, frogs, and possibly aquatic vegetation and fruit. |
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| Smooth-coated otters are omnivorous and will eat insects, earthworms, crustaceans, frogs, water rats, turtles, large birds, and fish. |
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| Croaking frogs have to be avoided and a water snake or two may obstruct your path. |
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| She would come back at dusk with arms full of small frogs, or large insects, with wild fruit and berries, or acorns and mushrooms. |
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| During a prolonged break in the rains the frogs and toads are hushed, except in jhils and low-lying paddy fields. |
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| Mammalian predators such as raccoons readily prey on frogs with seemingly no ill effects. |
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| Crickets are eaten by small owls, birds, snakes, mice, frogs, raccoons, opossums and many other creatures. |
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| The garter snakes mentioned in the letter generally eat frogs, worms, mice and smaller snakes. |
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| And what is there to life if a man cannot hear the lonely cry of the whippoorwill or the arguments of the frogs around a pond at night? |
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| Amphibians and reptiles include newts, green and Greek frogs, turtles, four-lined rat snake and Aesculapian snakes. |
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| They played a recording of a savanna fire to reed frogs that were peacefully estivating in Ivory Coast's Comoe National Park. |
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| A howler monkey screamed in the tree tops and frogs and cicadas and other creatures he could not name whistled and chirped in the dark. |
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| I bought giant stuffed frogs that squeak, plush lambies to cuddle, felt baby rattles to entertain. |
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| Well, we've twice before reported how scientists in Perth have reconnected the severed optic nerves of fish and frogs. |
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| A lot of the coastal lagoons that Green and Golden Bell frogs traditionally used as breeding sites have been reclaimed. |
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| I played in a backyard that was a jungle of cala lilies and fig trees, tiny frogs and ancient turtles. |
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| The familiar frogs, toads, and salamanders have been present since at least the Jurassic Period. |
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| While salamanders with ballistic tongue projection rarely miss their target, frogs that use ballistic projection can be highly inaccurate. |
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| Viable woodlands are just as critical as clean waters for frogs, toads, turtles, salamanders, newts, and many species of reptiles. |
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| Around 5,000 amphibian species, including frogs, toads, newts, and salamanders are thought to exist today. |
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| As frogs, toads, salamanders, and snakes emerge from hibernation, encourage them to stay around your garden and help control pests. |
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| The eggs of most frogs hatch into aquatic, free-swimming larvae, commonly known as tadpoles. |
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| These amphibians, like modern frogs and salamanders, hatched from eggs and spent their larval period in the water as tadpoles. |
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| Firefighters were called to the rescue yesterday after hundreds of amorous frogs arrived at their mating pond to find it dried up. |
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| Extant humeralrotation diggers exhibit broad palms and short non-ungual phalanges, and include moles and some frogs and amphisbaenians. |
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| In a couple of minutes, I can whip out jumping frogs or hungry mouths that amuse kids for hours. |
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| Like modern frogs, she says, the bones show an inner zone of yellow, fatty marrow, encircled by an outer zone of red marrow. |
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| I observed wood frogs 38 times and leopard frogs 28 times during all daylight hours. |
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| On October 9, 1992, 10,000 leopard frogs were killed on the two-mile stretch of four-lane highway. |
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| Wild-caught, subadult northern leopard frogs were obtained from Kons Scientific Company and maintained on a diet of laboratory-raised crickets. |
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| In some lepospondyls, and in frogs and salamanders, the surangular is absent. |
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| Some popped right into the backbend wheel, while others embraced leaping up and down, ribbiting like frogs. |
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| Real frogs jump and ribbit and do all sorts of things that are of no interest to me whatsoever. |
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| They land on lily pads in the pond and frogs are ribbiting and bouncing all around. |
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| Snowy herons skimmed low over the water, and choruses of warbling frogs emanated from clusters of lily pads. |
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| Ponds that are home to water lilies and lily pads are also home to frogs and other amphibious creatures. |
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| Research shows that the wetland is home to at least 202 species of plants and 56 aquatic animals, including endangered frogs and turtles. |
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| The springtime calling of frogs had given way to the chirping of crickets and the distant barks of rutting roe deer. |
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| Small birds, lizards, snakes, toads, and frogs are a small part of their prey items. |
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| If I'm lucky, I'll see deer, rabbits, frogs, and find a treasure trove of the wild blackberry bushes their property is lousy with. |
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| This frog is the most athletic of all the frogs and has a broad background in physical endeavours. |
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| The young snakes prey on recently hatched steelhead trout and chinook salmon and on the tadpoles of yellow-legged frogs. |
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| Biologists now find that slightly elevated UV exposure reduces the chance that tadpoles will become frogs. |
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| As the tadpoles become frogs, the gills initially used to breathe are replaced with lungs. |
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| He seems able to frighten the life out of MPs and really does come across as being as mad as a box of frogs. |
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| With the streets awash in dead frogs, small talk is no longer the order of the day. |
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| The children were given the chance to handle giant snails, snake, frogs, tarantulas, scorpions, millipedes and cockroaches. |
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| Endogenous retinoids have been detected in regenerating tissues from axolotls, frogs and chicks. |
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| Such meteorological events could help explain the sudden increase in malformed frogs over such a large and diverse region. |
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| The film captures monkeys in the Nariva wetlands, golden tree frogs housed in bromeliad plants and blue-backed manakins in Tobago. |
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| The book is full of these sequences, with frogs, pinkies, mantids, tarantulas, snakes, and more. |
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| The mantis will attack butterflies, bees, beetles, frogs, spiders, mice, lizards, and small birds. |
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| It includes some natural history displays which are always there, including live terrapins, frogs and guinea pigs. |
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| Living in freshwater marshes with areas of open water, they stalk fish, eels, frogs and insects. |
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| Were you fully aware that some frogs in Europe and North America routinely freeze in winter and return to life with the spring thaw? |
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| Active during the day, poison arrow frogs spend their daylight hours constantly searching for food. |
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| These frogs take longer to emerge from hibernation to answer the call of the spring mating season. |
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| Schools don't teach the names of trees or identification of birds and frogs. |
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| On one side, it reduces the people depicted to mere entertainment value, insignificant frogs meant only for visual dissection. |
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| A similar story can be told for several other species of toads, frogs, salamanders, alligators, and turtles around the world. |
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| The sudden arrival of warm wet weather caused a mass night-time migration of frogs, newts and toads to deluge the centre in Barnes. |
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| The recent warm but wet weather has caused a mass migration of frogs, newts and toads to the Barnes Wetland Centre. |
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| The skins of some species of frogs and toads secrete an extraordinary array of defensive chemicals when the animals are seized by predators. |
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| Fortunately, though, the virus has not proved to be as harmful to salamanders as B. dendrobatidis has been to frogs and toads. |
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| Additionally, these tadpoles become toadlets unusually early, so they are out of the water and hopping around faster than most other frogs. |
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| Other familiar predators are geckoes, tokays and frogs, and I know which I prefer in my home. |
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| Dramatic decreases are believed to occur when tissues under the tongues of green frogs become inflamed and are sloughed. |
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| Shovel-nosed frogs are smooth-skinned and small, with short, stout forelimbs and small heads with pointy snouts. |
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| But the girl had slipped into the woods, into the midst of a chorus of singing tree frogs and cicadas. |
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| Many birds migrate, and many of the world's frogs, lizards, and snakes lie low during cooler periods of the year. |
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| The hedge sheltered toads, frogs and voles and the birds were going berserk. |
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| In Colombia, one of the most biodiverse countries in the world, there are over 500 species of frogs living in the northern Andes. |
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| During a send-off presentation she received a bird bath from staff and a family of ceramic frogs, which she avidly collects, from the company. |
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| Examples of these organisms include wood frogs, mole salamanders, and fairy shrimp. |
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| She looked at one of the frogs, a big homely one with a gigantic mouth and monstrous warts. |
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| These creatures are prey to vertebrates like birds, mouse opossums, salamanders, and frogs. |
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| After I'd had my fill of blowpipes, dripping foliage and poisonous frogs I flicked through to an article on peanut farming. |
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| Their diet consists mainly of fish, but they also eat insects, frogs, and occasionally small mammals such as muskrats. |
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| At the sound of approaching footsteps, frogs hopped into the filthy, dark water at the deep end of the swimming pool. |
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| They say it is interesting that the suction-feeding mechanism evolved independently in the frogs and larval bony fish. |
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| Ground and rove beetles, centipedes, frogs and toads, slow-worms, hedgehogs and many species of birds all eat significant numbers of slugs. |
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| These pools as well as the deeper water areas of the sedge meadow provide breeding habitat for chorus frogs, spring peepers, and smallmouth. |
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| There are three native species of frogs and toads in the UK the common toad, common frog and natterjack toad. |
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| California red-legged frogs breed in aquatic habitats such as streams, ponds, marshes, and stock ponds. |
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| Creating log piles may help to attract hedgehogs, and rockeries may attract frogs, newts and toads who usually spend winter on land. |
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| Glass frogs are so named for the transparent skin on their venters, which allows for the observation of their viscera. |
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| In addition to honey, their diet included scorpions, spiders, insects, mice, lizards, frogs, snakes and fruit, she said. |
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| The lake behind the house was filled with tree frogs and bullfrogs and cicadas and crickets. |
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| The tadpoles of some species, such as the bullfrog, take as long as two years to metamorphose into young frogs. |
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| Evidence from past studies shows that the presence of Anax induces a reduction in activity level of small green frogs and bullfrogs. |
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| I'm stuck again, eighty feet above the warehouse floor, surrounded by Scooby Doo shampoo, clockwork frogs and sponge basketballs. |
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| The average masses of the small bullfrogs and green frogs were determined by weighing 60 haphazardly chosen tadpoles from the populations used. |
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| It is used for railroad frogs, for steel mill coupling housings, pinions, spindles, and for dipper lips of power shovels operating in quarries. |
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| Instead, said Adams, the non-native fish eat the native frogs and can eliminate entire populations. |
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| Learn about the relationship between native yellow-legged frogs and non-native trout. |
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| The frogs are fighting back with that funny noise they make, like one of those dog's squeezy toys when you step on them. |
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| In contrast to frogs, caecilians have a radically elongated vertebral column, no limbs or girdles, and relatively elaborate hypaxial musculature. |
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| The oldest known frogs, salamanders and caecilians are very similar to their living descendants. |
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| I mean, doesn't everyone think Witches are mythical old hags who ride broomsticks and turn princes into frogs? |
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| Dogs, cats, hamsters, a pet rat, goldfish, frogs and guinea pigs weren't enough for us. |
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| Dr Harnett said pond insects and water plants were already thriving, and some visitors had seen newts and frogs. |
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| The new pond has been created to encourage frogs, newts, toads, dragonflies and butterflies. |
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| The reason for avoiding consumption of the rest of the body is unclear, but may be related to poisonous excretions from the skin of frogs. |
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| Scientists now suggest that the diet of Colombian poison-dart frogs, shown above, causes their skin to be toxic. |
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| Scientists suspect that frogs use skin poisons as a defense against predators and microbes. |
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| From every direction frogs leaped, skidded, and dived toward the safety of deeper water. |
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| It was held closed by four large, golden frogs, down the front of the robe. |
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| I wasn't exotic and I never thought about wearing a little black linen pants and a shirt that closed with frogs instead of buttons. |
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| If you stand close by the crossing, you can feel the ground shake as the wheels bang over the frogs. |
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| Yellow and Silver eels are primarily nocturnal carnivorous feeders, consuming insects, crustaceans, clams, worms, fish and frogs. |
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| Most houses are built on the highest sites, hence the reason some frogs end up in gardens and even indoors if they get a chance. |
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| The widely used herbicide atrazine can convert male frogs into hermaphrodites. |
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| Snow pack and other natural insulators can keep the frogs sufficiently warm during their winter hibernation. |
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| There is a sugar glider, an emu and a kangaroo, several koalas, snakes, geckos, frogs, and eagle, a wombat, a pelican, and many more as well. |
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| The eastern hognose snake feeds on frogs and toads, but the young may eat crickets and other invertebrates. |
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| Female Bornean tree hole frogs lay their eggs in the rotting holes of hollow tree stumps so that offspring can grow in a pool of water. |
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| In Costa Rica he watched parasitologists dissecting frogs, turtles, and iguanas and finding new species of parasites in each group. |
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| Now green frogs, mice and other wildlife can continue their path alongside the stream. |
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| In some frogs, stride length is further increased by symmetrical forward movement of the entire pelvic girdle relative to the vertebral column. |
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| He brings his peroration to a close at this point, the frogs lingering as an image of the sacred. |
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| One species of bacterium sickens cattle, for example, while another attacks frogs, fishes, and other cold-blooded animals. |
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| Several representatives of this family of small, diurnal frogs are famous for their bright skin coloration and associated toxins. |
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| Male frogs were anesthetized in tricaine methanesulfonate and then were decapitated and pithed. |
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| No plague of locusts descends, the oceans don't boil over with frogs, and the apocalypse isn't ushered in because of our discovery. |
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| We do feel the creator's anger, in cursing them with a plague on both their houses, as frogs rain from the sky. |
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| Snakes, poison-arrow frogs, and bullet ants can be dangerous, and he often relies on the experienced parataxonomists. |
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| But populations of frogs, butterflies, ocean corals, and polar birds have already gone extinct because of climate change, Parmesan said. |
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| We inspect live eels, snake fish and frogs at one stall, pomfret, prawns squid and parrot fish at another. |
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| She finally reached a point where she could hear the voices over the sounds of the crickets and the croaks of frogs. |
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| The frogs croaking in the lake were loud enough to drown out the performers. |
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| The open window let in the sound of evening frogs croaking in the nearby swamp. |
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| Not too far ahead she could hear the sound of running water, and frogs croaking loudly in many different tones. |
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| Tadpoles and froglets can be preyed on by other frogs, crayfish, fish, turtles, and dragonfly larvae. |
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| Therefore, it is important that you acquire healthy froglets and continue the regiment of supplementing the frogs. |
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| Shrike is a colleague of sparrow, but has a curvirostral bill at the pointed end and sharp nails so as to catch insects, frogs and fishes easily. |
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| In Arizona these frogs are causing the decline of native aquatic species like the Mexican garter snake and the Chiricahua leopard frog. |
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| Using echolocation, ghost bats hunt for large insects, lizards, frogs, birds and even other bats. |
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| In the classroom, they explored the life cycle of the giant moth, tadpoles' transformation into frogs, and plant growth. |
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| Despite their enormous size as adults, eggs and tadpoles of goliath frogs are about the same size as those of other frogs. |
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| No one knows how many goliath frogs are left in the population and if the population is growing or shrinking. |
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| In the fifteen-year period from 1989 to 2004, the number of goliath frogs dropped by more than half. |
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| Food is acquired by using an incendiary device, a hand grenade thrown into the water, producing a harvest of frogs. |
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| Without enough R. lessonae to mate with, however, edible frogs couldn't reproduce. |
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| What about tigers, elephants and ducks listening to a chorus of frogs singing happily? |
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| They like things like slimey frogs, dirty activities, sticks and stones, and throwing those sticks and stones at other people and things. |
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| Hence, as in other frogs, the fundamental frequency of advertisement calls is a reliable and discriminable signal of male body size in bullfrogs. |
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| First, only 29 families of frogs, encompassing approximately 4,800 species, were known till then. |
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| How frogs locate water remains unknown, they seem to have a special water divining sense. |
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| This group is represented by a single extant species which is thought to be the sister taxon to all other frogs. |
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| And it's the fish pond that sparked the idea of breeding frogs. |
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| The frogs occupy a 16-ha stand of remnant native forest on Maud Island. |
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| On the poorly appreciated role of reptiles and amphibians, he said that geckos, garden lizards, frogs and toads have a vital role to play in the ecosystem. |
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| Blue skinks, bearded dragons, crocodiles, alien-looking veiled chameleons, reticulated pythons, leopard tortoises, and tiny glistening frogs and toads of every color. |
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| It's difficult to hear their ribbiting in the noisy rainforest, so male golden frogs wave to each other to communicate their dominance over a certain area. |
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| He collected accounts of frogs and other strange objects raining from the sky, UFOs, ghosts, spontaneous human combustion, the stigmata, psychic abilities, etc. |
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| There are about 6 to 14 species of tongueless, aquatic African frogs. |
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| The park was transformed from wasteland in 1997 and is home to a fascinating array of wildlife including frogs, toads, newts, dragonflies, damselflies, butterflies and birds. |
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| The frogs would rain down on him, land with a plop, gaze up at his smile and become princes. |
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| A rackety chorus of crickets and frogs forms the nightly soundtrack to bermudian life. |
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| Not only does the noise go on for hours but these infernal machines kill or maim thousands of hedgehogs, frogs and fledglings every spring and summer. |
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| I kept tadpoles and frogs, raised orphaned birds successfully, learned to tell time by the sun, and the temperature by the rate at which crickets and katydids chirped. |
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| The loud ribbits of frogs come from the lilies in the smelly pond. |
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| Many brown species of frogs are being killed as a result of misidentification, but the good news is that many toads did not survive the winter frosts. |
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| It's also the game season and the season for frogs and snails. |
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| Water provides a breeding place for frogs, toads, newts and dragonflies. |
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| A pond is a little world in itself, he says, home to a dizzying array of creatures from frogs and newts to water boatmen, diving beetles, dragonflies and damselfies. |
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| The children of a cattle rancher found the California red-legged frogs while playing around watering holes on their property, wildlife officials said Tuesday. |
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| The effect is sometimes almost orchestral and sometimes like electronic jazz, with enhanced frogs and insects riffing on chord changes and rhythmic patterns. |
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| Other characters included two long-suffering frogs called Ernie and Sylve, an heroic tortoise called Lewis Collins and a little white shell called Jim Morrison. |
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| If frogs had opposable thumbs, Kermit would be twiddling them when Muppets Most Wanted begins. |
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| Another aspect of control is to protect natural mosquito predators such as dragonflies, ants, ground beetles, spiders, water striders, frogs and snails. |
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| He pulled a bag of lollies out from his bag, it was a red packet filled with mixed snakes, jelly babies, frogs and many other sweet treats to eat. |
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| Primitive humans would have needed to avoid certain species of animals, as we do now, such as venomous snakes, poisonous frogs, tarantulas and wolves. |
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| I wish she would retire from the public eye, be elusive, continue to cultivate the mad as a box of frogs image by all means, but stop talking and concentrate on the singing. |
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| Everywhere from its ebullition frogs, gnats and flies came forth. |
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| My wife and I find that the crickets are nosier than the frogs, and best of all, the mosquitoes have all but disappeared from our macadamia orchard. |
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| Bullfrogs, unlike native frogs, are unpalatable to the non-native fishes. |
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| I visited a nature reserve in Queensland once, to see juvenile frogs. |
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| Furthermore, the astragalus and calcaneum, ankle bones, are greatly elongate, providing an additional level in the legs of frogs, which they utilize in jumping. |
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| Can known natural laws account for the explosion of live frogs? |
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| One of only four aquatic frogs known to live in Australia, this frog inhabits the continent's driest areas, hunting in gilgais after rain for insects, shrimps and tadpoles. |
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| It is also hoped that the wet grasslands and shallow riverside verges will benefit water voles, dragon and damselflies, frogs and toads and different types of newts. |
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| What's more, even as the Central Valley became a major source of edible frogs, Californians were converting wetlands to farmland on a massive scale. |
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| The frogs were silent and branches broke with a split and crack. |
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| Douglas Florian's lizards, frogs, and polliwogs pairs primal yet sophisticated watercolors with clever poems that subtly instruct on the nature of amphibians. |
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| Artists' impressions have been drawn up to simulate how the classroom could look, with a boggy area designed to encourage frogs and other insects to the land. |
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| The most common bird of prey is the kestrel, which feeds chiefly on rodents such as mice and voles but will occasionally take small birds, beetles, small frogs, etc. |
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| He suffered numerous injuries, managed to escape from his prison, walked for two weeks through the jungle eating live frogs before he was recaptured. |
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| Some amphibians we know today include frogs, toads, newts and salamanders. |
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| Amphibians such as frogs, toads, and salamanders are undergoing rapid population declines, most likely due to fungal disease, climate change, habitat loss, and pollution. |
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| I tumbled into dreamless slumber each night, lulled by a chorus of frogs. |
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| Cherry trees were in full bloom, grapevines grew everywhere, and giant patches of herbs surrounded a centre water feature complete with ducks and frogs. |
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| Both salamanders and Hamilton's frogs care for eggs and young. |
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| We caught butterflies in the patches of wildflowers, encased fireflies in Mason jars, and ran down horned frogs which we'd keep all summer and release before school started. |
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| In his suitcases were more than 200 live skinks, geckos, and frogs. |
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| With a yellow bird on the Seagrape terrace, I sit transfixed as the cocktail, a blend of three local rums, accentuates the robust cacophony of tree frogs. |
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| Amphibians, such as frogs and toads, can also carry salmonella. |
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| Animal welfare experts now fear Scottish wildlife such as deer, hedgehogs and frogs could also suffer as their young are killed off in the freezing temperatures. |
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| The crickets chirped and the frogs croaked off in the trees. |
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| This year's Christmas trees are tainted with Pacific chorus frogs we're not supposed to let hop out the door. |
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| RiceAAEs recording of boreal chorus frogs captures a distant train, and if you listen carefully to the waves at Nye Beach, Ore. |
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| Chytrid skin fungi, which have devastated frogs in parts of Australia and Central America, have now turned up in the wild in the United States. |
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| She even kept a big tub full of treif fish, and lobsters and frogs and eels. |
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| And the African clawfooted frog swallows almost anything in front of it, even other frogs. |
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| Its usual source of food is fish, and further downriver, eels, but it may sample frogs and birds. |
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| They have small rounded, highly sensitive ears and sharp teeth adapted for eating small mammals, birds, insects, frogs, and carrion. |
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| One of the area's favorite parks, full of Florida scrub jays, gopher tortoise, gopher frogs and indigo snakes. |
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| The Cenozoic world has seen great diversification of bony fishes, frogs, birds and mammals. |
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| For those wishing a matt finish on their frogs, a similar selection of underglazes was also available. |
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| For the first time this year, the museum also offered a 50s vintage fairground, with attractions such as flying frogs hoopla. |
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| Mud can provide a home for numerous types of animals, including varieties of worms, frogs, snails, clams, and crayfish. |
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| The red-sided garter snake, while harmless to all but the most ophiophobic of humans, is a fearsome predator of frogs, salamanders and slugs. |
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| Nevertheless, some frogs live in deserts, creating moist habitats underground and hibernating while conditions are adverse. |
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| Specifically, they have been noted to feed on crayfish, frogs, snails, salamanders and leeches. |
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| There are also several endemic amphibian species in Java, including 5 species of tree frogs. |
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| Some bats prey on vertebrates, such as fish, frogs, lizards, birds and mammals. |
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| When such foods are insufficient, they prey on lizards, snakes, frogs, rarely toads and large insects as available. |
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| Larger species, such as monitor lizards, can feed on larger prey including fish, frogs, birds, mammals and other reptiles. |
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| Juveniles will eat nestling mammals, small lizards and frogs as well as worms and spiders. |
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| In many countries moor frogs have a light dorsal band which easily distinguishes them from common frogs. |
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| Outside the breeding season, common frogs live a solitary life in damp places near ponds or marshes or in long grass. |
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| In the British Isles, common frogs typically hibernate from late October to January. |
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| The oxygen uptake through the skin suffices to sustain the needs of the cold and motionless frogs during hibernation. |
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| Some frogs are killed, but rarely eaten, by domestic cats, and large numbers are killed on the roads by motor vehicles. |
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| Rarely they spend the winter in flowing waters with the common frogs and green frogs. |
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| Smooth newts are generalist carnivores with a broad diet including invertebrates, crustaceans, and the eggs and hatchlings of frogs and fish. |
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| Chytrid fungus has decimated frog populations worldwide, and caused extinctions and widespread declines in Australian frogs. |
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| Luigi Galvani, one of the pioneers of bioelectricity, discovered that the muscles of dead frogs legs twitched when struck by an electrical spark. |
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| In addition, many types of frogs are common on the island, especially treefrogs. |
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| One published case documented a woman who developed ranidaphobia, as it is known, after running over a knot of frogs with a lawn-mower. |
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| I set off early to walk along the Melbourne Road where, one of the punters had told me, there was a soak with plenty of frogs in it. |
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| Reeds and wild rye lay subdued to a dog's bark at a pile of dead frogs buried together in ice. |
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| For the first time this year you can also have a go on 1950s vintage fairground attractions, flying frogs hoopla anyone? |
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| Thus, such terms as wops, frogs, yids, harps, jigaboos and coons were only too familiar to folks in the long ago. |
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| The remaining population of agile frogs on Jersey is very small and is restricted to the south west of the island. |
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| Generally, rabbits and frogs are best as their eyes contain more rhodopsin or visual purple, which is the light sensitive protein in the retina. |
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| If deadbeat dads among frogs shirk their parental duties, neglected egg clutches can respond by hatching early. |
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| Among Darwin frogs, it is the male who swallows and stores the developing tadpoles in his vocal sac until juvenile frogs emerge. |
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| Purgue uncovered the ear phenomenon while investigating a long-standing puzzle about vocal sacs in frogs and toads. |
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| The snake, called a floodplain death adder, eats two types of frogs that are hard to stomach. |
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| There are also many species of tree frogs, and fish such as sturgeon and paddlefish. |
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| Other poisonous frogs, like the redbelly toad, are brown and blend in with their surroundings. |
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| Frogfishes were mistaken for true frogs in the 18th century, which isn't as silly as it sounds. |
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| These include river otter, raccoons, beavers, green frogs, and western ribbon snakes. |
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| Spring peepers, pickerel frogs and leopard frogs should be singing in our wetlands. |
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| Leopard frogs are associated with water throughout their life cycle but live in more open areas than green frogs. |
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| Its status in Mexico is poorly known, but Chiricahua leopard frogs have declined to some extent there as well. |
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| Leptodactylid frogs of the genus Eleutherodactylus in the Andes of northern Ecuador and adjacent Colombia. |
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| Testes size in Leptodactylid frogs and occurrence of multimale spawning in the genus Leptodactylus in Brazil. |
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| And who named the frightening Devil's Tooth Hollow Yard and the Froggery, redolent as it is with thoughts of frogs jumping? |
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| You can stuff them full of kapok to make a decent cushion and there is nothing better to carry frogs in. |
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| Grass snakes are non-venomous timid creatures that live in ponds, swamps and rivers, living off eating amphibians, such as toads and frogs. |
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| A BOG garden can provide a new habitat for damp-loving creatures like frogs, toads and grass snakes. |
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| Some frogs can become frogsicles and still live! The North American wood frog can withstand brutal winters. |
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| The model, who's been kissing rather a lot of dishy frogs in the quest for her prince, was spotted with her latest yesterday morning. |
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| To try to figure out why tailed frogs belly-flop, Essner and other scientists collected and filmed different kinds of frogs. |
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| On still nights, the rhythmic gruntle and squeak of frogs carried across the water. |
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| It is thus possible that bioconcentration processes are responsible for the presence of mercury in frogs from Terlingua Creek. |
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| A cardoon and macleaya cordate add structure and height while the serene atmosphere is reflected in a lily pond hopping with frogs. |
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| These loud-piping frogs make the mantlet to ring. It seems to be the very metropolis of frogdom. |
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| All four of the southern frogs present I have heard in my suburban backyard, but the sheer numbers here are thrilling. |
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| For example, Marsupial frogs carry their eggs in moist pouches on their backs. |
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| Facultative strains included enterobacteria in non-hibernating frogs and Pseudomonas species in hibernators. |
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| This wildlife show is irresistibly funny stuff, from high-speed caterpillar wheelies to bouncy bushbabies, via frogs with built-in parachutes. |
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| Chemicals contained in the microfauna eaten by the frogs are excreted through their vibrant skins. |
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| There was also a total of 477 herptile reports, which included frogs, toads, slow worms and lizards. |
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| Threatened and sensitive species known to exist in the headwaters include rare plants, red-legged frogs and pileated woodpeckers. |
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| Horned frogs are native to South America and are so-called because of a fleshy bump above their eyes. |
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| While we protect the rights of the convicted murderer, the whales, frogs and sand fleas, we abandon the helpless human being. |
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| So, from frogs and baby birds to capercaillies and roe deer, the golden eagle is indeed a most versatile predator. |
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| What started out as simple cells ultimately transformed into slime molds, frogs, elephants, humans and the rest of our planet's living kingdoms. |
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| Responsibly captive-bred reptiles and amphibians such as red-footed tortoises, lizards, snakes and frogs. |
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| Wood frogs and mole salamanders only breed in these temporary bodies of water and rely on them as nurseries for their young. |
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| The proposals cover more than 60 groups of species, ranging from the African elephant to Malagasy poison frogs and the monkey puzzle tree. |
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| Metamorphic responses to changing food levels in two species of hylid frogs. |
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| Hylid frogs of the genus Scinax Wagler, 1830, in Amazonian Ecuador and Peru. |
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| Cloudbursts during the rainy season, when pantless tree frogs breed, may get iffier as the climate changes. |
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