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 '.

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 )

A similar distinction between anapestic and iambic arguments is made in the agons in The Knights and The Frogs.

It made its first appearance on April 13, 1899 during a Stanford rally when yell leaders used it to decapitate a straw man dressed in blue and gold ribbons while chanting the Axe yell, which was based on The Frogs by Aristophanes ( Brekekekek croax croax ):

This was the case in 2010, when the Oregon Ducks made it to the national championship, permitting the # 3 TCU Horned Frogs to attend, and win, the 2011 Rose Bowl.

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.

Cleophon was made the object of satire by the comic poet Plato in an eponymous play ( now lost ), and by Aristophanes, a famous Greek playwright in The Frogs.

Frogs also constitute an important part of their diet: Ruthven ( 1928 ) mentioned that in Michigan they made up the main portion of their diet.

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.

* The Frogs – a musical version of Aristophanes ' comedy with book by Burt Shevelove ( 1974 ).

" 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.

' 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.

It was previously known as Labatt Saturday Night ( later just called Saturday Night, after Labatt dropped its title sponsorship ), and was best known for the theme song " The Place'll Be Rockin ' ' Cause It's Saturday Night " performed by The Carpet Frogs member Michael Zweig.

The most famous mention of Iacchus is in The Frogs by Aristophanes, where the Mystae ( mystics ) invoke him as a riotous dancer in the meadow, attended by the Charites, who " tosses torches " and is likened to a star bringing light to the darkness of the rites.

* " Ariadne " is a song in The Frogs, a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, book by Burt Shevelove, revisions by Nathan Lane.

* The Frogs by Stephen Sondheim

The Fuente de las Ranas ( Fountain of the Frogs ) was created in the 1920s, by Miguel Alessio Robles in Seville, Spain.

Professor Joshua Barr of the Staines Cyrobiology Laboratory in Middlesex ( UK ) has been carrying out experiments with British tree frogs to discover whether they also exhibit tolerance to very low temperatures in the same way as exhibited by American Tree Frogs.

In addition he played with Box of Frogs which was a band formed in 1983 by former members of The Yardbirds, who released their first album in 1984.

Category: Frogs by classification

* The Frogs, a play by Aristophanes

* " Frogs " ( song ), by Alice in Chains

Category: Frogs by classification