Frogs and Their Unique Life

Frogs and Toads can be found all over the world, and on all continents except for Antarctica. They can live in/on land, trees, and sand dunes. They eat spiders, bugs, and earthworms. Birds, snakes, and bats eat frogs.  You can tell the difference between a frog and a toad because a frog has smooth skin and long back legs for jumping. Toads have bumpy skin and short back legs.




Frogs can make sound such as; barking dogs, quacking ducks, and of course, croaks. The biggest frog in the world is the Goliath Frog; the smallest is the Little Grass Frog. Another interesting fact about frogs is that they don’t have to drink. The water gets absorbed through their skin (this is how they get hydrated). A frog’s skin also helps them to breath. But only when their wet! That’s why it’s so important for them to stay in wet places. Frogs only have 159 bones (humans have 206 bones). This is because they don’t have rib bones; this is what makes them so flexible. Over half a frogs bones are in their feet. They also don’t have ears, they hear through vibrations in their brain. This is how it works; frogs have this thing called tympanum which is a piece of skin behind their ears. The tympanum vibrates like a drum when sound waves hit it. The vibration is then sent to their brain. There are about 4,000 different species of frogs on the planet with us today.



The most interesting of all of them is the Poison Dart Frog. Poison Dart Frogs come in many others colors then just blue, but just touching them could kill you. All of these frogs come in bright brilliant colors. People and animals know that vibrant color means deadly poison. Frogs like this that live in the zoo are more than likely not poisonous. Scientist believe that it’s what the frog eats in the rain forest that makes them poisonous. It’s said that native hunters in Columbia would dip their darts in the frog’s mucus so that they could more easily kill an animal with a poisonous dart.

  Frogs are unique creatures and God made them Genesis 1:24

²⁴ And God said, “Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds: the livestock, the creatures that move along the ground, and the wild animals, each according to its kind.” And it was so.