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About the Tree Frog

There are about 4,000 species of frogs and toads that are known to scientists. There are another ten to twenty species that are discovered each year. Frogs are very sensitive to changes in the environment. These changes are causing these amphibians to disappear faster than most other wild-life. Some of the changes in the environment that are endangering frogs are deforestation, ozone depletion, global warming, and air and water pollution. Many frog species have become extinct before scientists ever have a chance to learn of their existence.

Red-Eyed Tree Frogs are amphibians. This means that they spend part of their lives under water and then the rest on land. These little frogs live in the lowland tropical forests.

Tree frogs are nocturnal, meaning that they are most active at night. A Red-Eyed Tree Frog is a meat-eater. It eats mostly insects that it catches with it's long, sticky tongue. Sometimes it will even eat other small frogs.

The Red-Eyed Tree frog is prey to some bats, snakes and some of the rainforest's birds.

 

 

Here Are Some Pictures of Tree Frogs

 
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This tree frog can be found in the rainforests of Thailand.

 

 

  

 

 

 Red-eyed tree frog

 

 
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This is a red-bellied tree frog. It can be found in the rain forests of Surinam. The red-bellied tree frog's habitat is in serious danger. Surinam's froests are disappearing at a rate of about 100 acres a day. Forests are being cleared for commercial logging and for farmland.

 

  

 

 This red-eyed tree frog can be found in the tropical rainforest of Millaa Millaa near the Great Barrier Reef on the Far North Eastern coast of Australia.

 

 
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The red-eyed tree frog may be one of the most recognizable of the creatures of the rainforest. The red-eyed tree frog is the unofficial mascot of tropical forest protection.

 

 

  

 

 

 Red-eyed tree frogs are only two to three inches long.

 

 
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