Frog Month Facts

More frog facts? Yes, please. (Dreamstime)

In the April issue of OWL, we shared a whole bunch of frog-tastic facts with you. But guess what? We had even more that we wanted to include—there just wasn’t room. So we’re sharing them with you here now (plus a cute video). Enjoy!

1. Africa’s Goliath frog is the world’s largest amphibian. It’s 33 cm (1 ft.) long—about the length of a school ruler.
2. Some species of frogs can lay up to 50,000(!) eggs at one time.
3. The shrinking frog of South America is the only frog species where the tadpole is bigger than the adult frog! Yup, that’s why it’s called the “shrinking frog.”
4. The word “amphibian” comes from the Greek word that means “both lives.” This is because frogs start their lives in water, and then live on land.
5. Many frogs can jump 20 times their own height. That would be like a human jumping 30 m (100 ft.) into the air—or as high as a 10-storey building!

And then there’s this guy! Meet the desert rain frog. Also known as the world’s cutest frog.

Happy Frog Month, everyone!

-Kendra, owlblog@owlkid.com