![]() ![]() Already, I find that Luigi doesn't take enough credit as it is, so why should our red plumber get all the fame? Luigi is SO much more interesting. With the number of cooky cast members in the Mario Bros. franchise, we're sure to find someone a little more interesting than Mario. But does that make him the most interesting character of his universe? He is the hero we always need, the bread to our butter, our one and true saviour of the Mushroom Kingdom. Our dear regent has been kidnapped, quick, call a plumber! For about 35 years now, our moustachioed hero in red has jumped over cliffs, eaten shrooms, smashed turtles, broken bricks, and gone down sewage pipes in the sole purpose to save Princess Toadstool (Peach if you're more modern, Pauline if you're more retro). When the eggs hatch, the tadpoles fall into the water below.Via:, ![]() It is also sometimes called the strawberry dart frog.ġ4 ) The red-eyed tree frog lays it eggs on the underside of leaves that hang over water. It lives in West Africa and can measure more than a foot in length and weigh more than 7 pounds – as much as a newborn baby.ġ3 ) There’s a type of poison dart frog called the blue-jeans frog it has a red body with blue legs. The teeth are used to hold prey in place until the frog can swallow it.ġ2 ) The biggest frog in the world is the Goliath frog. The wax prevents the skin of the frog from drying out in sunlight.ġ1 ) Most frogs have teeth, although usually only on their upper jaw. ![]() You can even observe its heart beating and its stomach digesting food.ĩ ) There is a frog in Indonesia that has no lungs – it breathes entirely through its skin.ġ0 ) The waxy monkey frog secretes a wax from its neck and uses its legs to rub that wax all over its body. When there’s a thaw, the frog’s warms up, its body functions resume and it hops off like nothing ever happened.ħ ) A group of birds is called a flock, a group of cattle is called a herd, but a group of frogs is called an army.Ĩ ) The glass frog has translucent skin, so you can see its internal organs, bones and muscles through its skin. The water in the frog’s cells freezes and is replaced with glucose and urea to keep cells from collapsing. When temperatures fall, the wood frog’s body begins to shut down, and its breathing, heartbeat and muscle movements stop. He then proceeds to cough up tiny, fully formed frogs.ĥ ) When a frog swallows its prey, it blinks, which pushes its eyeballs down on top of the mouth to help push the food down its throat.Ħ ) The wood frog of North America actually freezes in the winter and is reanimated in the spring. ![]() He keeps the tiny amphibians in his vocal sac for about 60 days to allow them to grow. After it pulls off the old, dead skin, the frog usually eats it.Ĥ ) When Darwin’s frog tadpoles hatch, a male frog swallows the tadpoles. After 12 to 20 weeks, fully formed young toads emerge by pushing out through the membrane covering the toad’s back.ģ ) A frog completely sheds its skin about once a week. Her skin swells around the eggs until they become embedded in a honeycomb-like structure. I have since discovered many amazing, surprising, disgusting and flat-out weird facts about frogs, and have collected the 14 best to share here with you:ġ ) One gram of the toxin produced by the skin of the golden poison dart frog could kill 100,000 people.Ģ ) The female Surinam toad lays up to 100 eggs, which are then distributed over her back. Toad from The Wind in the Willows and Kermit. When I started working on this frog blog post (inspired by the adorable yet deadly poison dart frogs at the National Zoo), my knowledge of frogs was limited to Mr. ![]()
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