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Frog Princess
452 words"The Frog Princess" 2/6/05 This book is about a princess named Emma who is clumsy always trips over herself and when she laughs she sounds like a donkey. She has an aunt Grassina who's a witch. She goes to a near by swamp and meets a talking frog. The frog claims to be a prince and he wants her to kiss him. But the princess just goes home and tells nobody, what she found. Feeling bad she goes back to the swamp and decides to kiss the frog to see if he really is a prince. And he said that if she ...
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H Versicolor The Grey Tree Frog
1,364 wordsHyla versicolor, commonly know as the Gray Tree Frog or the Eastern Gray Tree Frog, is an amphibian that is referred to as the "Chameleon of the Frog world" (Craighead, 2004, p. 1) because of its ability to change colors. "This frog was once thought to be the same species as the Cope's Gray Tree Frog". They can only be distinguished by their calls and the fact that the Cope Gray Tree Frog is diploid while the Gray Tree Frog is tetraploid (NPWRC, 2004). The Gray Tree Frog is classified as follows...
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Frog Eggs And Other Tadpoles
1,544 wordsA Frog is a small, tail less animal that has bulging eyes. Almost all frogs have long back legs. The strong hind legs make the frog able to leap farther than the length of its body. Frogs live on every continent except Antarctica, but tropical regions have the greatest number of species. Frogs are classified as amphibians. Most amphibians, including most frogs, spend part of their life as a water animal and part as a land animal. Frogs are related to toads, but are different from them in a few w...
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Disappearance Of Frogs
666 wordsBonnie Gleason Ecology October 20, 1995 Endangered Species One example that can affect mankind if not foretell it, that seems small and insignificant, is the disappearance of frogs. In 1970, a science students was studying frogs. While collecting information out in a field, she had to take care not to step on any of the frogs that she was studying as there was so many of them. Two years later, all she encountered were a few dying frogs with puffy red legs. The frogs' immune systems had been dest...
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Hop Frogs Ability To Transcend His Body
1,293 wordsEdgar Allen Poe's 'Hop Frog': The Transcendence Of Frogs and Ourang-Outings 'Hop-Frog! , I will make a man of you. ' In Edgar Allen Poe's short story 'Hop Frog,' the title character Hop-Frog is able to transcend the limitations of his physical body, in ways the King and his seven ministers are unable. 'Hop-Frog' has multiple examples of the transcendence of man, and the inability of man to transcend. The most prominent of these points are: 1. By overcoming the limitations of his, Hop-Frog's, phy...
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Tree Frogs
434 wordsFrogs are usually small animals that have smooth, moist skin, bulging eyes, and external eardrums behind the eyes; the adults lack a tail. Frogs have long hind legs, and most species can take long leaps. Many species also have webbed feet, making them excellent swimmers. Most frogs, especially males, are quite vocal. As the frog forces air through the voice box, or larynx, the vocal cords vibrate to make calls distinctive of its species. A much louder sound is produced by the males of species th...
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Frogs Live In Tropical And Semitropical Regions
468 wordsFrogs are needed for everyday life. They are part of pond life. Each animal is important because even in the pond, there is a food chain. Frogs are amphibians, animals that spend half of their lives under water, and remainder on land. The first frog appeared in the early Jurassic period about 200 million years ago. Frogs live on every continent except Antarctica, but tropical regions have the largest amount. Like all amphibians, frogs spend half their lives near water because they must return to...
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External And Internal Parts Of The Frog
324 wordsDerek Deusenberry 1296 Period 1 5/21/01 Title: Frog Dissection Purpose: To learn the external and internal parts of the frog. Materials: dissecting pan, probe, pins, scissors, scalpel, frog, paper, pencil, paper bags, paper towels, and water. Procedure: The frog was placed in the dissecting pan. The legs of the frog were pinned after they were straight. We were to examine the external parts of the frog. A dorsal picture was drawn. We cut the skin on the leg to look at the hinged leg. The hinges ...
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Greenhouse Frog
484 wordsEleutherodactylus p. planirostris, or more commonly the Greenhouse frog, is from the Leptodactylidae family. They were unintentionally introduced to Florida around 1875. Their numbers have continued to grow and they are now very common among South Florida with increasing inhabitants around the panhandle. Greenhouse frogs have a reddish-brown appearance with either dark blotches or 2 dark stripes down their backs. They are relatively small in size usually growing to about an inch to and inch and ...
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Boy's Feelings Towards The Frogs
487 wordsDeath of a Naturalist The poem, like Seamus Heaney's work, is very nature minded in terms of context. However, he describes the frogs in a very evil, sinister, and menacing way. It is about a child who collects frog spawn from the dam and collects it in jars. He is innocent and unaware of the evil that lurks in the frog spawn. We can see in the poem that the boy is young, when he remembers his teacher teaching him about the frogs, and his way of calling the frogs 'Daddy frog' and 'Mammy Frog'. T...
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Frog Skin
983 wordsI was amazed to find out just how ancient frogs are. For 190 million years, the ancestors of modern frogs have roamed (if not ruled) the earth, looking much the same as they do today. This means that at one time when there was a huge dinosaur eating a plant, there could have been some type of frog down by its feet. About 3,800 species of frogs and toads have developed since the dinosaur days. The secret to their success is their amazing adaptability. Frogs have evolved to live in a large variety...
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V Conclusion Disappearance Of Frogs Amphibian Populations
982 wordsAre The Threatened and Extinction Of Frogs An Indicator Of A Declining planet? Outline I. Introduction Thesis Statement: Is the amphibian disappearances or deformities an early warning of serious environmental problems? II. Origins a. Early b. Evidence. Habitat a. Ecosystem IV. Indicator a. Detection V. Disappearance a. Arizona VI. Why? a. Diseases b. Pollution VII. Frogs a. Endangered b. Threatened V. Conclusion Disappearance of Frogs Amphibian populations are declining or are disappearing arou...
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Change From Tadpole To Frog
288 wordsMost common frogs live in or around freshwater and lay their eggs in water. The eggs hatch into small tadpoles which grow and develop into frogs over a period of months. This change from tadpole to frog is called metamorphosis. The process involves not only the growth of legs, arms and loss of the tail, but internal gills are replaced by lungs and the digestive system changes to cope with a diet of insects rather than algae and decaying animal matter. The aquatic tadpole metamorphoses to become ...
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