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 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 '.

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 )

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

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.

Weaver earned her Master of Fine Arts degree at the Yale University School of Drama in 1974, where one of her appearances was in the chorus in a production of Stephen Sondheim's musical version of The Frogs, and another was as one of a mob of Roman soldiers alongside Meryl Streep in another production.

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.

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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.

Their collaboration continued when he revised the original book for and starred in the Broadway debut of the composer's The Frogs at Lincoln Center in 2004.

*" Twist And Shout / Boys " 7 " live at Max's with Jimi LaLumia & The Psychotic Frogs -( 1981 )

The 2010 TCU Horned Frogs finished their second consecutive regular season at 12-0, were back-to-back champions of the Mountain West Conference, and ranked # 3 in the final BCS Poll.

* Photos of Sick Frogs at Queensland Frog Society

The peninsula was virtually an island at high tide: in 1776, George Washington's headquarters wrote of a potential British landing at " Frogs Neck ".

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.

One son, Xenocles, was a tragedian who later defeated Euripides at the City Dionysia in 415 but his abilities as a dramatist are ridiculed by Aristophanes in Thesmophoriazusae and The Frogs.

Despite the paucity of surviving text, the Myrmidons has achieved some measure of fame, because of Aristophanes ' satire of it at Frogs 911 – 13 in which Euripedes mocks Aeschylus ' stagecraft:

He played college football for the Horned Frogs at Texas Christian University, where he was a two-time All-American.

In 1978 an all-female band, the Wide Mouthed Frogs, comprising Jenny Morris and Kate Brockie ( lead vocals ), Tina Matthews ( bass guitarist ), Andrea Gilkison ( guitar ), Bronwyn Murray ( keyboards ) and Sally Zwartz ( drums ) was established in Wellington, New Zealand, Lawrence played saxophone for the band at a number of their performances, and Dasent was the musical director for the band.

From Euripides, the Hippolytus and The Bacchae ( together with The Frogs of Aristophanes ; first edition, 1902 ); the Medea, Trojan Women, and Electra ( 1905 – 1907 ); Iphigenia in Tauris ( 1910 ); The Rhesus ( 1913 ) were presented at the Court Theatre, in London.

* 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.

A memorable banner was unfurled by Liverpool supporters at the European Cup final in Rome which said " Joey Ate The Frogs Legs, Made The Swiss Roll, Now He's Munching Gladbach ".