The more we know and learn, the more we want to help protect and recover our rainforests and its’ wildlife.
We hope you have fun learning about frogs through our Operation Leap Frog facts, fun and games.
- What frogs do when they change from a tadpole.
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Metamorphose |
- The best way to identify a frog species.
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To close your eyes and listen to males calling during a rain storm |
- Australia’s largest Treefrog?
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White-lipped Treefrog |
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An army |
- The mating embrace of a frog or toad during which eggs are shed into the water and then fertilized.
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Amplexus |
- The name for a group of animals including frogs, toads, newts and salamanders.
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Amphibians |
- The first Australian frog seen in Europe collected in 1770 by Sir Joseph Banks on his voyage with Captain Cook.
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A Green Treefrog |
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A knot |
- Tadpoles eat mainly plants so they are called?
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Herbivores |
- Frogs mainly eat insects such as flys which means they are?
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Insectavores |
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Frogs swallow their food with their eyes
True: When a frog swallows a meal, his bulgy eyeballs will close and push inwards, into his head. This is because the eyeballs apply pressure and actually push a frog's meal down his throat.
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Frogs can leap higher than a house
False: But some frogs can launch themselves over 20 times their own length. That would be like you (if you were a 1m tall) jumping over 20 metres (about the 4th floor of a block of apartments).
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Frogs are good for your health
True: The Green Treefrog has glands on top of its head which produce a drug used by scientists (now made synthetically) to control blood pressure in humans.
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Some tadpoles can stay in the water for over a year before they become frogs
True: The Wet Tropics Northern Barred frog has huge tadpoles that remain in water for about 2 years before they metamorphose into a frog.
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Herpetology is the study of creepy crawly things that move about on their bellies.
True: Herpetology is the study ofreptiles and amphibians. Herp comes from the Greek word herpeton and literally means the study of creepy crawly things that move about on their bellies.
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Frogs live underground in the desert for most of the year
True: Some frogs live underground storing water in their bladder or in pockets, sealed in a water-proof cocoon of shed skin. They only emerge in very heavy rain.
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The story of the wide mouthed frog
One day a frog was hopping along and when he met a possum he said:
Hello! I’m a wide mouth frog. I eat flies. What do you eat?
The possum said I eat leaves.
Then the frog hopped up to a wallaby and said:
Hello! I’m a wide mouth frog. I eat flies. What do you eat?
The wallaby said I eat grass.
Then the frog hopped up to a crocodile and said:
Hello! I’m a wide mouth frog. I eat flies. What do you eat?
The crocodile said I eat wide mouth frogs. The frog said :
Oh, that’s nice, (to be said in a tight squeaky voice) you don’t see many of those around here.
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