Northern Leopard Frogs

    Recently, an invasive and lilliputian frog has had a detrimental effect on the Hawaiian environment. Originally from Puerto Rico, the amphibian arrived in Hawaii and spread like a plague. Such a small frog cannot have that big of an impact, right? Wrong. The Coqui frog is a damaging invasive species of the Hawaiian islands due to its lack of natural predators and adaptability, dangerous eating habits, and its easy distribution among the state.

Which amphibian has red eyes, yellow feet, and looks like a leaf? Red Eyed Tree Frogs of course! Because Frogs are amphibians, they spend most of their time in water or wet places. Interestingly, Female will lay their eggs in water, when these eggs hatch they become tadpoles. These baby frogs have many stages such as, developing back legs, growing front legs, becoming a juvenile frog, and finally losing its tail and becoming an adult. Red Eyed Tree Frogs Wake up at dusk and go on the prowl for insects and fruit, which are its main diet. Also, when red eyed tree frogs sleep, they curl their feet and shut their eyes, they look exactly like a leaf, this helps from camouflage from predators. These loveable leaping

The Northern Correboree Frog is an endangered species that is restricted to montane, subalpine woodlands, grassland and heathland 1,000 metres above sea level. The estimated amount of Northern Correboree Frogs is 1000-5000. One of the reasons why the Northern Correboree Frog is endangered is because of climate change. Climate change affects the Northern Correboree Frog because it was predicted that its population would decrease in winter and spring precipitation because, this would make one of the popular breeding habitats (edges of bog pools) very saturated and dry, which makes it hard for the frogs to breed.

Known in the scientific community as Bufo marinus, cane toads were introduced to Australia in the mid-1900’s t rate from their native home of South America. Sugarcane crops were at risk of destruction from the infestation of beetles, and these species were brought in to help counter the negative effect that the beetles were having on farms. These amphibians have the ability to grow up to 4.4 pounds, and were soon doing more harm than good. Not only were the cane toads eating the beetles that they were meant to, but they also started including native insect-eaters in their diets (Roach). This new addition to their food source helped the toads to thrive and expand their habitat region.

The mountain yellow-legged frog is declining due to the introduction of trout, contaminants, increased levels of ultraviolet radiation, and the fungal disease, chytridiomycosis. David Bradford, one of the first witnesses to the decline in the late seventies, noticed the species dropping because of the red-leg disease. Because this is a secondary infection, the frog’s immune system was weakened before the disease became existent. The chytrid fungus was first cited in the Sierra Nevada in 2001, brought here from African clawed frogs, but studies have suggested that the disease has been evident since the mid-‘70s. Nearly three decades later, the mountain yellow-legged frog is still declining. Currently, with a ninety-eight percent decline, there

Many sources say that the initial spread of this invasive species began at the end of the 1800's when bullfrogs were shipped to California to fill hungry loggers appetite for frog legs. The frogs competed with the other native species with the supply of natural resources while also consuming and exploiting the native amphibian species as well. Worldwide Rana catesbeiana has driven over one-hundred native species of frogs to extinction (Save The Frogs! et al. 2013). This is a huge impact on amphibian wildlife worldwide because there are about 4,800 species of frogs. Over the past hundred years the bullfrog has wiped out over 2% of the world's species of frogs. Studies have shown one of the reasons bullfrogs will cripple Arizonian ecosystems and the native amphibian species directly is because a female bullfrog’s physiology

During my summer on August 23, 2015, my brother and I went to Kensington metro park to see if we could catch a frog. At the park we found a pond full of frogs and we finally caught a frog called The Bull frog, it had green and brown spots and a bright green upper lip and a creamy yellowish belly, it was three to eight inches long. Bull frogs is mostly found statewide, but numbers have been reduced locally due to overharvesting for "frog legs." Now rare over much of state. The Bullfrog could be as the size of a toad, but there is a big difference. Frogs have two bulging eyes

Leopard geckos like moving prey that are able to be caught. Crickets, mealworms, flies and other insects are optional. For large adults, baby pinky mice can be fed to them. Calcium and D3 should be supplemented to properly provide their nutritional needs.

The Boreal Chorus Frog prefer to live in forest openings around ponds. In Idaho, the Boreal Chorus Frog can be found in the eastern part of the state, and along the Snake River to the western side of the state.

Clouded Leopards are carnivores, so they only eat meat. They are apex predators. The leopards are located at the top of the food chain. They only eat primary consumers in South Asia. It mostly eats birds, monkeys, deer, porcupines, wild boar, pigs, young buffalo, and domestic livestock.

The fossa and the leopard are alike in many ways but they are different on other ways.one way they are different is that the fossa lives in trees while the leopard lives in a cave.the leopard also lives in a tree.the leopard also lives on a rock.

Living in the desolated environment of Africa, there stood a leopard named Leo. Leo is the smallest, yet fastest of them all. Without a doubt, he beats the lion, jaguar, and tiger. Leo is always looking for preys to hunt every day. He hunts and feeds off of small hoofstock, such as impala, wildebeest, deer, and gazelle. Leo and his kind live on dry parched trees in the grasslands of Africa. When Leo hunts, he often brings his prey up to the branches of the tree to eat them. Leopards are always assumed to catch their prey with ease; however, Leo differs from the rest of his kind.

Frogs, toads, caecilians, and salamanders are the members of the class Amphibian (amphi- meaning “on both sides” and bios- meaning “life”). These members always require water for reproduction. Most Amphibians undergo metamorphosis, which is a usually degenerative pathological change in the structure of a particular body tissue. And, in the case of Amphibians, it is the changing of a tadpole into

One example of an invasive species is Xenopus laevis, or the African clawed frog. These frogs carry a fungus called Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis. Chytrid fungus infects amphibians with chytridiomycosis by attacking the part of a frog’s skin that contains keratin. Frogs use their skin to

A leopard’s diet are mostly anything that has considered meat which makes them carnivores. Each time that they go and hunt, they aren’t as picky on what they eat. Everytime that they go hunting for their food they hunt for gazelle, impala, and deer. On occasion when they go hunting they go for monkeys, rodents, and birds.