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 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 '.

Frogs and lizards are expected to suffer from increased drought. Calculations suggest that the loss of cloud forest in Mexico would lead to extinction of up to 37 vertebrates specific to that region.

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 )

In 1988, Brian Hill joined The Frogs as bassist ; he continues to make appearances with the group.

The second event ended up bringing the group to public attention: Jay Tiller gave a tape of the Frogs ' improvised home recordings to his friend Steve Albini, and the tape eventually made its way to Gerard Cosloy, then head of Homestead Records.

Other vocal samples incorporated into " Where It's At " come from " Needle to the Groove " by old school rap group Mantronix (" we've got two turntables and a microphone ..."), as well as The Frogs (" that was a good drum break ").

Frogs produce a wide range of vocalizations, particularly in their breeding season, and exhibit many different kinds of complex behaviours to attract mates, to fend off predators and to generally survive.

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.

* Euripides: One of the great tragic poets, he is the butt of jokes in many of Aristophanes plays and he even appears as a character in three of them ( The Acharnians, Thesmophoriazusae and The Frogs ).

These include Ocelots, Blue Poision Dart Frogs, and many other animals you can find in the rain forest.

Northern Leopard Frogs are preyed upon by many different animals such as snakes, raccoons, other frogs and even humans.

) as well many frogs ( notably Moaning Frogs Heleioporus eyrei ), reptile species ( e. g. dugites, skinks and long necked turtles ).

* Les Claypool's outfit, Les Claypool's Fearless Flying Frog Brigade have covered this song on their Live Frogs Set 1 album out through Prawn Song records, as well as playing it many times live, most recently at New Year's Eve 2009.

As with many other Australian frogs, the predominant reason for the Corroboree Frogs ' decline is thought to be infection with the chytrid fungus.

Other species in the Zoo's collection include Red Pandas, Meerkats, Bactrian Camels, Oriental Small-Clawed Otters, South American Tapirs, Aardvarks, Mountain Zebras, Bongo, Red River Hogs, Cottontop Tamarins, Spider Monkeys, Bornean Orangutans, Great Grey Owls, Barn Owls, Von der Decken's Hornbill, Rainbow Lorikeets, Ostriches, American Flamingos, Common Peafowl, Emu, Eastern White Pelicans, Aldabran Tortoises, Egyptian Tortoises, Nile Monitor Lizards, Royal Pythons, Tiger Salamanders, White's Tree Frogs, African Land Snails, Hissing Cockroaches and many more.

After sending demos to many European record labels, Kleinenberg released his first single " Bombay " in 1993 on Belgian record label Wonka Beats under the artist name Free Frogs, a collaboration with several friends.

Frogs can survive many freeze / thaw events during winter if not more than about 65 % of the total body water freezes.

Red-eyed tree frogs are closely related to Chorus Frogs, which have the same body style and many of the same habits, though chorus frog are more vocal.

In March 2012, Mysteries of the Rainforest was opened and features many new species of live animals, including: Caiman Alligators, Poison Dart Frogs, Tortoieses, Piranha and more.

Like many frogs in the Rana genus, Green and Golden Bell Frogs are mostly aquatic, and only travel over land during periods of rainfall.

Nólsoy has one of the world's largest colonies of European Storm Petrels ( 50, 000 pairs ), and is also home to the first known wild population of Common Frogs in the Faroe Islands.

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 have been caught on fish hooks baited with red flannel and green frogs ( Rana clamitans ) have been found to have stomachs full of elm seeds that they had seen floating past.

In The Frogs ( 405 BC ) by Aristophanes, Dionysus descends to Hades and announces himself as Heracles.

Another draft of the opening number, " Invocation and Instructions to the Audience ," has been used in subsequent revues of Sondheim songs and was sung by Nathan Lane in the musical The Frogs.

Aristophanes scripted him as a character in at least three plays: The Acharnians, Thesmophoriazusae and The Frogs.

In The Frogs, composed after Euripides and Aeschylus were both dead, Aristophanes imagines the god Dionysus venturing down to Hades in search of a good poet to bring back to Athens.

* Heracles also appears in Aristophanes ' The Frogs, in which Dionysus seeks out the hero to find a way to the underworld.

This is the case of Legnano Frogs, Torino Giaguari, etc.

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.

Money ran out during production, so one scene featuring a flashback to Vietnam was filmed separately ( with a different budget ) as The Frogs of War.

In the case of a frog croaking, the spelling may vary because different frog species around the world make different sounds: Ancient Greek brekekekex koax koax ( only in Aristophanes ' comic play The Frogs ) for probably marsh frogs ; English ribbit for species of frog found in North America ; English verb " croak " for the common frog.

Fiorio then departed in late 1969, eventually assuming the name Duke Tumatoe, and went on to form the All Star Frogs.

" 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.

Frogs typically lay their eggs in water.