Funny Frog Pictures

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• Frogs and Crocodile
• Poison Arrow Frogs
• Noisy Frogs
• Cheeky Frog Picture
• The Paradox Frog (Pseudis paradoxa)
• 'Devil Frog' Eats Baby Dinosaurs
• I Think it's Time for a Rest
• Toad and Mouse
• Interesting Facts about Frogs

1) Frogs and Crocodile

This is probably a tree frog.  A wild guess is a young crocodile has tried to snatch the frog, but the amphibian is just too quick and avoids the jaws.  See a picture of the world's biggest crocodile.

2) Poison Arrow Frogs

Fear of frogs is known as: Ranidaphobia.  If you have ever thought about arrows poisoned with frog venom then it is understandable that you develop a mistrust of frogs.  See frog picture opposite.

While these frogs are deadly poisonous, scientists are investigating diluting their secretions and using them for medicinal purposes.  One problem facing the scientists is that the frogs loose their poisons in captivity.  See the picture of the frog to the right.

Silly Frog Jokes
What's green with red spots?
A frog with the chicken pox!

What's green with bumps?
A frog with the measles!

3) Noisy Frogs

A state of emergency has been declared on Big Island, Hawaii because of an infestation of noisy frogs. Originally from Puerto Rico the coqui frog arrived on the island hidden in tropical plants. The coqui frog is extremely noisy at night and literally makes a shrieking noise.

On their home island there are approximately 8,000 frogs per acre: however, on Big Island, this rises to some 80,000 per acre. Local residents say the frogs have no natural predators so they have raised $15,000 to fight the frogs with hydrated-lime spray.

4a) Just Playing - Classic Cheeky Frog Picture

Why are frogs always so cheeky?  Moreover, frogs always seem full of tricks, perhaps this is an illusion caused by their metamorphosis from tadpole to adult.

5) The Paradox Frog (Pseudis paradoxa)

The 'Paradox' Frog has been known for a long time in South America.  It owes it's name to the fact that it's children - tadpoles - are considerably bigger than the adult frogs.  Paradox tadpoles can reach 10 inches, whereas adult frogs are only 2 inches maximum.

It is funny to see the tadpoles alongside their parents.  The picture to the right, underestimates the size difference.  You can also imagine how if the tadpole's tail shrank, then it's overall size would approximate to that of the adult paradox frog. 

What's new with the 'Paradox Frog' is that an investigation of this shrinking phenomenon has discovered a protein called pseudin-2 that stimulates the frog to release insulin.  The benefit is that this chemical can help people suffering from type 2 diabetes.

Diabetes suffers already benefit from investigation of drugs in the saliva of the lizard Gila.  However, this giant lizard is an endangered species, moreover the paradox frog produces more and better secretion containing pseudin-2.

Footnote:
One reader wrote in to say that the tadpole was making a rude sign with its foreleg.  Funny what some people read into a frog photograph.

5b ) Disgusting - Don't read

It was discovered on a space mission that a frog is able to vomit. The frog throws up its stomach first, so the stomach is dangling out of its mouth. Then the frog uses its forearms to dig out all of the stomach's contents and then swallows the stomach back down again.

6) 'Devil Frog' Eats Baby Dinosaurs

Scientists discovered a 'devil frog' that lived about 70 million years ago.  They unearthed the fossil in Madagascar.  It was so viscous that it may have eaten baby dinosaurs.  This beast is much bigger than any frog living today and is probably the largest frog ever to have existed, according to palaeontologist David Krause of Stony Brook University in New York.

See the well preserved, funny frog picture to the right, taken by by Miss Pulla Your-leg. 70 million years ago in a Madagascan swamp.

Its name, Beelzebufo ampinga, was derived from Beelzebub, which the Greek for devil, coupled with bufo the Latin for toad.  Ampinga means 'shield', and refers to the armour-like part of its anatomy.  The Devil Frog was 16 inches long and weighed an estimated 10 pounds (4.5 kg).   One feature is its very wide mouth, which conceals powerful jaws.  Think of a frog coloured basket ball and you get the picture.

Beelzebufo probably didn't eat daintily, even by frog standards. It's quite likely that Beelzebufo trapped and killed lizards, it is even possible that it preyed on hatchling dinosaurs, thus speeded up their extinction.

7) I Think it's Time for a Rest

What kind of shoes do frogs wear?  Open toad!
What do you call a frog with legs? Dinner.

8) Toad and Mouse

Andy Maddox confirms that the toad in the picture has prominent cranial crests, warty skin and parotid poison producing glands.  These are all characteristics of the true toads in the family Bufonidae, and thus distinguish this him from the funny frogs that you see elsewhere on this page.

9) Just a Wonderful Frog Picture

10) Interesting Facts About Frogs

• Did you know that a group of adult frogs is referred to as an Army of frogs?  Other collective nouns for frogs include a colony and a knot.
• Frogs legs are considered a delicacy in China, Greece, New Orleans, and of course France.  Consequently, these areas have frog farms to cater for demand.  To Will and Guy they taste of chicken!
• Frogs will only eat something that moves; in nature that would be insects, or maybe spiders.  Frog farmers soon learn that frogs are not tempted by dead meat.  Tadpoles on the other hand, are vegetarian.
• Unlike reptiles, amphibians, such as frogs, always return to water to breed.  (Think of frogspawn).   However, there is a midwife frog where the male carries the frogspawn around on his body.  When he senses the time is ripe, he swims out into the water and the tiny tadpoles emerge from their egg-jelly and swim away.
• Frogs, can change their colour to suit their background; not as spectacularly as chameleons, but enough to save them from a casual predator.
• Ranidaphobia means fear of frogs; however there is no need to worry that touching them will give you warts, that's just one of the many myths surrounding frogs.

Frog Legends

Frog Prince

The most famous frog legend is Grimm's fairytale of the Frog Prince.  In a nutshell, the princess is upset; she sees a frog, talks to him and trusts him.  The princess promises to let the frog into her palace, whereupon he turns into a handsome prince. 

He explains that a spiteful fairy turned him into a frog, and to get out of the spell he had to sleep upon a princess's pillow for 3 nights.  They ride off into the sunset in the princess's carriage, which magically appears.  (Kissing the frog to break the spell is a modern embellishment.)

Native American legend

A frog annoys a crane in their pond.  The frog keeps croaking and boasting that he is king of the pond.  One twilight the crane decides to stalk the frog and teach him a lesson.  Just as the crane snatches the frog in his beak, so a fox hears the commotion and kills the crane.  Whereupon the frog escapes back into the pond.  The legend says that the frog never boasted again.

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