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Frogs and lizards
Frogs, lizards and large insects on the ground may also be pounced on from the air.
Frogs and lizards are also taken, but these are mostly fed to their chicks.
Fauna on the mountain includes swamp wallabies, Deer, spotted-tailed quolls, southern brown bandicoots, grey-headed flying foxes, sugar gliders, wombats, possums, giant burrowing frogs, red-crowned toadlets, Striped Marsh Frogs, Eastern Water Dragons, Water Skinks, blue-tongued lizards, Diamond Pythons, red-bellied black snakes, Golden-Crowned Snakes and broad-headed snakes, although it is not common to see snakes, as some sources state incorrectly.

Frogs and are
Frogs are much more vocal, especially during the breeding season when they use their voices to attract mates.
Frogs are a diverse and largely carnivorous group of short-bodied, tailless amphibians comprising the order Anura ( Ancient Greek an -, without + oura, tail ).
Frogs are widely distributed, ranging from the tropics to subarctic regions, but the greatest concentration of species diversity is found in tropical rainforests.
Frogs are extremely efficient at converting what they eat into biomass, which makes them an important food source for predators.
Frogs are a keystone group in the food web dynamics of many of the world's ecosystems.
Frogs are valued as food by humans and also have many cultural roles in literature, symbolism and religion.
Frogs and toads are broadly classified into three suborders: Archaeobatrachia, which includes four families of primitive frogs ; Mesobatrachia, which includes five families of more evolutionary intermediate frogs ; and Neobatrachia, by far the largest group, which contains the remaining twenty four families of modern frogs, including most common species found throughout the world.
“ Wild-type ” African Clawed Frogs are also frequently sold as pets, and often incorrectly labeled as a Congo Frog or African Dwarf Frog because of similar colorings.
They are easily distinguished from African Dwarf Frogs because African Clawed Frogs have webbing only on their hind feet while African Dwarf Frogs have webbing on all four feet.
African Clawed Frogs are frequently mislabeled as African Dwarf Frogs in pet stores.
African Clawed Frogs are voracious predators and easily adapt to many habitats.
Due to incidences in which these frogs were released and allowed to escape into the wild, African Clawed Frogs are illegal to own, transport or sell without a permit in the following US states: Arizona, California, Kentucky, Louisiana, New Jersey, North Carolina, Oregon, Virginia, Hawaii, Nevada, and Washington state.
Frogs are an excellent example of all three trends: frog legs can be nearly twice the body length, leg muscles may account for up to twenty percent of body weight, and they have not only lengthened the foot, shin and thigh, but extended the ankle bones into another limb joint and similarly extended the hip bones and gained mobility at the sacrum for a second ' extra joint '.
The empusae are best known for their appearance in Aristophanes's The Frogs, in which they scared Dionysus and Xanthias on their way to the underworld.
* In J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter series, two kinds of sweets seen eaten by the characters are Chocolate Frogs and Cockroach Clusters.
Amphibians: Frogs are the most crucial amphibian species in wetland systems.
Frogs are used as an indicator of ecosystem health due to their thin skin which absorbs both nutrient and toxins from the surrounding environment resulting in an above average extinction rate in unfavorable and polluted environmental conditions.
Frogs are also fairly numerous, especially the green tree frog, Litoria caerulea, but there are many others.
The mountain is mentioned also in The Frogs and there are references to the town and people of Delphi in The Wasps and The Birds.
* Magnes: Another comic poet, his predicament as a has-been is lamented by the Chorus and there are allusions to five of his plays-The Lute, The Lydians, The Birds, The Flies, The Frogs ( lines 520-25 )

Frogs and from
Frogs range in size from the goliath frog ( Conraua goliath ) of West Africa to the long Paedophryne amauensis, first described in Papua New Guinea in 2012.
Frogs, toads and salamanders all hatch from the egg as larvae with external gills.
Frogs, toads, and newts all hatch from the egg as larvae with external gills but it would take some while for the amphibians to interact outside with pulmonary respiration.
" The word xylon " piece of wood " was also used, but for a gallows, not a stake, as in the Aristophanes comedy The Frogs ; " if you stumble, at least you'll hang from a respectable tree.
Frogs ' skins vary in colour from well-camouflaged dappled brown, grey and green to vivid patterns of bright red or yellow and black to advertise toxicity and warn off predators.
At the end of Stephen Sondheim's The Frogs, William Shakespeare is competing against George Bernard Shaw for the title of best playwright, deciding which of them is to be brought back from the dead in order to improve the world.
Frogs typically have no ribs, aside from a sacral pair, which form part of the pelvis.
" The fact of bad money being used in preference to good money is also noted by Aristophanes in his play The Frogs, which dates from around the end of the 5th century BC.
The referenced passage from The Frogs is as follows ( usually dated at 405 BCE ):
' Apples ', ' Spring Awakening ', ' Almost Nothing to do with Frogs ' and ' Flames Over New Jersey ; were all shows performed at the Underbelly during the 2012 Fringe by current and old Etonians, with the latter 2 productions written and directed by boys from the school.
After 150 students paid $ 1, 000 each for a ten-day workshop in Santa Cruz, California, Bandler and Grinder gave up academic writing and produced popular books from seminar transcripts, such as Frogs into Princes, which sold more than 270, 000 copies.
Aristophanes, in The Frogs, pokes fun at Theramenes ' ability to extricate himself from tight spots, but delivers none of the scathing rebukes one would expect for a politician whose role in the shocking events after Arginusae had been regarded as particularly blameworthy, and modern scholars have seen in this a more accurate depiction of how Theramenes was perceived in his time ; Lysias, meanwhile, who mercilessly attacks Theramenes on many counts, has nothing negative to say about the aftermath of Arginusae.
Other staff at the UU include The Senior Wrangler, the Chair of Indefinite Studies, the Lecturer in Recent Runes, the Chair of Oblique Frogs, The Professor of Revolvings, the Professor of Extreme Horticulture, The Professor of Applied Anthropics, the Reader in Esoteric Studies, the Lecturer in Creative Uncertainty, The Professor of Dust, Fluff, and Miscellaneous Particles, the Lecturer in Vindictive Astronomy, the Professor of Recondite Architecture and Origami Map-Folding, Ladislav Pelc, Prehumous Professor of Morbid Bibliomancy, Professor Goitre, Posthumous Professor of Morbid Bibliomancy, Devious H. " Dragonbreath " Collabone, Professor Flead, Windle Poons, Professor Ritornello, Master of the Music, Professor Bengo Macarona, visiting professor from Genua and extraordinary football player, Mrs Whitlow, the domineering head of the kitchen, and Modo, the gardener.
* Rasputin, the Mad Frog ; one of the Punk Frogs from the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series
The name of the genus comes from the Greek pseudes ( false ) and akris ( locust ), probably a reference to the repeated rasping trill of most Chorus Frogs, which is similar to that of the insect.
* Frogs, an alien species from German science-fiction series Space Patrol Orion
: I know the croaking chorus from The Frogs of Aristophanes!
Cummings plays occasional shows with Randy Bachman as The Bachman-Cummings Band, featuring The Carpet Frogs, a band from Toronto and makes occasional appearances at various Canadian casinos as a solo performer.

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