🦁 Animal world 🐊 Reptiles and amphibians

The frog

📖 In short

Ribbit! The frog is a small animal with no tail, big bulging eyes and long, strong back legs that let it jump much further than its own body length. Frogs live near ponds and rivers on every continent except Antarctica.

🤩 Did you know?

There are about 700 kinds of true frogs in the world.
Frogs appeared on Earth about 180 million years ago.
A frog drinks water through its skin, not its mouth.
A baby frog changes from a tadpole with a tail into a frog with legs.

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🌟 A jumping champion

Long legs help a frog leap far from enemies and swim fast. Between its toes is webbing that works like a swimmer's flippers.

🔍 A fast tongue

A frog catches insects with its long sticky tongue, shooting it out lightning-fast to grab a fly, then swallowing it whole. Amazingly, it uses its eyes to help push the food down its throat when it swallows!

💡 Singing at night

The male frog sings at night to attract a female. He has a vocal sac under his mouth that blows up like a balloon and makes his voice loud.

🎯 Colorful poisonous frogs

In rainforests there are little frogs with very bright colors: red, blue and yellow. These colors warn other animals: “My skin is poisonous, don't eat me!”