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The Spring Peeper

30 July, 2024
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The spring peeper is a diminutive chorus frog species that is widespread throughout the eastern half of Canada and the United States. They prefer habitats with permanent ponds but can adapt to a wide range of habitats. These

The Sri Lankan Painted Frog

5 June, 2024
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The Sri Lankan painted frog, aka Sri Lankan bullfrog, Indian painted frog, Sri Lankan kaloula, kaloula frog, Ceylon kaloula, or painted globular frog, hails from Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, India, and Nepal. They prefer dry

The Grey Foam-Nest Tree Frog

20 May, 2024
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The grey foam-nest tree frog, aka southern foam-nest tree frog, hails from South Africa. The frogs are very adaptable and can tolerate a wide variety of habitats like ponds, canals, ditches, subtropical and tropical dry

The Bell Frog

3 May, 2024
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The bell frog, aka green bell frog, green & golden swamp frog, and green frog, hails from eastern Australia and northern New Zealand. With their populations decreasing more than 30% in the past 10 years, these frogs are listed

The Archey’s Frog

12 April, 2024
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The Archey’s frog has changed little over the past 200 million years, therefor they represent “living fossils”. They prefer the damp vegetation of their native forests, and dwell only in a small section of forest in the North Island

The Karpathos Frog

31 January, 2024
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The Karpathos frog belongs to the Ranidae (true frog) family. They can only be found on the island of Karpathos, in the South Aegean Sea, in Greece. They prefer rivers, intermittent rivers, freshwater lakes, intermittent

The Itatiaia Highland Frog

4 January, 2024
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The Itatiaia highland frog is a small frog species native only to the Itatiaia Mountains of Brazil. These anurans prefer to dwell in leaves, mulch, and stones in sparse forests, open grasslands, and even in burrows. Sadly, due

The Amazing Lake Titicaca Frog

27 October, 2023
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The Lake Titicaca frog, aka Titicaca water frog, hails from the Lake Titicaca basin, which includes the rivers that flow into it as well as the smaller connected lakes like Lagunillas, Arapa, and Saracocha, in the Andean

The Unusual Darwin’s Frog

21 July, 2023
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The Darwin’s frog can only be found in Chile and Argentina. They prefer moist, moss covered ground; grasslands; rough wooded debris; and young trees and shrubs in mature native forests, near slower

The Invasive Common Coquí Frog

1 May, 2023
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The common coquí frog, aka coquí, is native to the islands of Culebra, Puerto Rico, and Vieques. But they have been introduced to several other locales, like east Hawaii; from Glenwood to Kalapana, and throughout

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