Sentences with phrase «other frogs»

In the wild, they typically consume other frogs, and they are difficult to transition to fish and mice.

Also, like other frogs, their hind legs are much larger and stronger than the fore legs, enabling the frogs to jump rapidly.

The authors did not directly compare the observed morphological changes to those of other frog species.

Calling the extreme stability of the cane toad toxins «fascinating,» Michael Tyler, a herpetologist at the University of Adelaide, North Terrace, in Australia who has been studying the invaders intermittently for over 50 years, notes that a number of other frog - skin compounds have similar durability.

Brazilian zoologist Fábio P. de Sá witnessed Brazilian torrent frogs using eighteen different visual displays, five of which had never been seen before in other frogs.

The reasons for the declines remain speculative but vegetation succession, climatic fluctuations, predation by native and exotic species, competition from other frog species, and water pollution caused by pesticides and / or other chemicals associated with agriculture are possibly significant (Harding 1997, Lannoo 1998, Hammerson 1999, Hammerson and Livo 1999).

Unlike other frogs in the genus that are predominantly stream dwelling, the new miniature frogs were found under damp forest leaf litter or marsh vegetation.

Gardiner's frogs from the Seychelles islands, one of the smallest frogs in the world, do not possess a middle ear with an eardrum yet can croak themselves, and hear other frogs.

They co-occur in high numbers at the sites where other frog species have declined and may have played a key role in those declines.»

Like many other frogs, the túngara create foam nests for their eggs.

With a pair of vicious - looking fangs, Odontobatrachus natator is bad news for prey animals — including other frogs

Expanding their search to other frog tissues, the researchers found more evidence of the protein in the nonoptical cells of the retina, in the iris, and deep in the brain.

Unlike most other frog species, the pyxies take parenting seriously.

Richard Essner of Southern Illinois University in Edwardsville suspected unusual jumping behaviours in leiopelmatids because they are known to swim differently from other frogs, using a «trotting» movement rather than a synchronous double kick.

Dart frogs» care requirements apply not only to a number of other frogs, but also some lizards and even a few snakes.

In other frogs, females usually lay eggs during the male - female embrace (amplexus) and males simultaneously release sperms that fertilize the eggs during this process.

«However, we know of frog species that croak like other frogs but do no have tympanic middle ears to listen to each other.

When confronted by members of their own species and one other frog species, red strawberry poison dart frogs reacted more violently than green ones, the researchers will report in an upcoming issue of Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology.

Whereas the tailed frogs deposit their fertilized eggs under rocks in streams, the other frogs previously known to have internal fertilization give birth to froglets — miniature replicas of the adults.

The Otton frog has one more finger than other frogs — a finger with an extendable spike it uses to stab rivals

He had found what he was looking for: direct proof that the female of a new species of frog does what no other frog does.

The research team suggested Laterite narrow - mouthed frog to be its common name, as frogs in the Microhyla genus have a smaller mouth compared to other frogs.

The set of signals is the most sophisticated ever documented for a frog, but de Sá thinks that other frogs could have similarly complex repertoires, if only researchers would take the time to look.

«However, we know of frog species that croak like other frogs but do not have tympanic middle ears to listen to each other.

This is an incredible rate for an amphibian: cane toads at the Aussie invasion front travel much much faster and further than any other frogs or toads that have been studied elsewhere in the world.

Matt Greenlees conducted detailed comparisons of these and other frog species in areas where toads haven't yet arrived, where they arrived recently, and where they have been present for quite a few years - and he found that Dahl's Aquatic Frog has managed to deal with cane toads in the same ways as other frog species have done.

Your body position will be the same as every other Frog Hop Progression but after you explosively launch your entire body off the ground you will clap each hand to each toe before landing.

Said the other frog with a merry grin, I can't get out, but I won't give in — I'll swim around till my strength is spent, Then I will die the more content.

Unlike almost all other frogs, they are diurnal, often cavorting about their enclosure in full daytime view of their humans.

They survive extended dry seasons that would kill any other frog by estivating — the summertime equivalent to hibernating.

To divine answers to these questions, the frog relies on highly specialized brain cells that monitor two parts of other frogs» bodies, their eyes and mouths.

Picture a frog sitting on a lily pad in a pond looking at all the other frogs around it.

It wants to know: What are the other frogs eating?

By tracking other frogs» eyes and mouths, it can more or less predict what other frogs are going to do.