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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 '.
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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 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 )
Frogs and example
An " eye accessing cue chart " as it appears as an example in Bandler & Grinder's Frogs into Princes ( 1979 )
One example is Racing Frogs, an MMOG that can be played with only a small amount of time every day.
For example, once in particular, The Kings enjoyed Roy's specially prepared delicacy of Frogs ' Legs in the French-style.
In The Frogs, for example, the agon is between Aeschylus, who values Homer for the warrior ethos he inculcates in his audience, and Euripides who values the intellectual and philosophical quibbling of a legalistic society.
* Exodos: Old Comedy conventionally ends with a celebration of the protagonist's victory and it features a sexual conquest, as represented for example by the flute girl in The Wasps and the Muse of Euripides in The Frogs.
Frogs are a notable example of this effect, though their complex development is likely more important.
Frogs and all
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.
' 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.
Jackson Knight, " Vergil's Charon is not only the Greek ferryman of Aristophanes The Frogs, but more than half his Etruscan self, Charun, the Etruscan torturing death-devil, no ferryman at all.
* Euripides: A controversial tragic poet, he is lampooned in all Aristophanes ' plays and he even features as a character in three of them ( The Acharnians, Thesmophoriazusae and The Frogs ).
The Frogs deviates from the pattern of political standpoint offered in Aristophanes ’ earlier works, such as The Acharnians ( 425 BC ), Peace ( 421 BC ), and Lysistrata ( 411 BC ), which have all been termed ' peace ' plays.
In the Gilbert and Sullivan light opera The Pirates of Penzance, Major-General Stanley, in his introductory song, includes the fact that he " knows the croaking chorus from The Frogs of Aristophanes " in a list of all his scholarly achievements.
Mr. Spudich served on the Freeport Library Board, was a Freeport City Alderman, coached the Frogs Girls Softball Team, played slow pitch softball in his 1970s, helped move a log cabin to the Stephenson County Historical Society grounds in Freeport, and did all the stonework on his own house plus a lot of stonework for others.
Frogs ( in bottle ) floated beside his easel ; and with all these creatures he kept up a most playful, loving style of conversation ; though, often enough, any human beings about him, or such even as came to see him, were growled or grunted at in no social fashion.
Frogs and three
Aristophanes scripted him as a character in at least three plays: The Acharnians, Thesmophoriazusae and The Frogs.
* 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 ).
The fables they suggest include The Tortoise and the Hare, the Lion and the Goat, the Wolf and the Crane, the Frogs Who Desired a King and three others, brought to life through a musical score featuring mostly marimbas, vocals and percussion.
It was this inconsistency which ultimately cost the Seals a place in the post-season ; after three back to back wins in July, including a nailbiting 3-2 win over Lancaster Rattlers, nerves set in ; a 3-0 final day loss to San Jose Frogs when a win was required proved to be the ultimate nail in the coffin.
That season, he led the Horned Frogs to an undefeated season, as they outscored their opponents by a 269-60 margin and held nine of their ten regular-season opponents to seven points or less, including three shutouts.
The Budweiser Frogs are three lifelike puppet frogs named " Bud ", " Weis ", and " Er ", who began appearing in American television commercials for Budweiser beer during Super Bowl XXIX in 1995.
The NES version features 5-on-5 action on a horizontally scrolling court, four different teams ( Boston Frogs, New York Eagles, Chicago Ox, Los Angeles Breakers ), three levels of single-play difficulty, and four different choices of quarter lengths.
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