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6 unusual facts about Frog


Aratz-aizkorri

Amphibians present in the ponds include the triton and the Iberian Frog.

Chek Lap Kok

Also, Romer's Tree Frog (Philautus romeri), a unique species of finger-sized frog found only in Hong Kong, was relocated from Chek Lap Kok to new habitats on Lantau Island before construction of the airport.

Frog-Man

Frog-Man (Eugene Patilio) is a minor comedic superhero created by writer J. M. DeMatteis and artist Kerry Gammill for Marvel Comics.

Eugene Patillo as Frog-Man was later recruited by the US government as part of the Fifty-State-Initiative program, as a member of the Kentucky based team, Action Pack.

Picathartes

Frogs and lizards are also taken, but these are mostly fed to their chicks.

Tiddalik

The story has been said to describe the Water-holding Frog (Litoria platycephala), from central Australia.


2006 Mountain West Conference football season

After being trounced by their former Southwest Conference rivals, 70-35, in Lubbock two years prior, the Horned Frog defense kept quarterback Graham Harrell and the Red Raider offense out of the endzone for the entire game, JR linebacker walk on Christopher Abbott led the defense with one sack, 8 tackles 3 for a loss of yards and one interception, to earn their fourth consecutive victory over the Big 12.

Adicolor

Trainers include characters on them such as "Trimmy" "Betty Boop" "Mr Happy" "Tron" "Miss Piggy", "Kermit the Frog" and Muhammad Ali.

Attack on H3

In Saddam's attempts for a successful offensive against Iran on the northern front between 12 and 22 March 1981, Iraq fired two 9K52 Luna-M surface-to-surface Rockets against cities of Dezful and Ahwaz.

Batrachomorpha

Friedrich von Huene adopted it as a superorder of his subclass "Eutetrapoda" (the lower tetrapods exclusive of the urodeles) and included the orders Stegocephalia (here including a number of labyrinthodonts) and anurans).

Betsy von Furstenberg

Betsy von Furstenberg has appeared on Broadway in Second Threshold (1951), Oh, Men! Oh, Women! (1953), The Chalk Garden and Child of Fortune (1956), Nature's Way (1957), The Making of Moo (1958), Step on a Crack (1962), The Frog Pond (1965), The Paisley Convertible (1967), Avanti! (1968), The Gingerbread Lady (1970), and Does Anybody Here Do the Peabody? (1976).

Bleating tree frog

This frog is native to coastal eastern Australia, from south-eastern Queensland, to around Eden, New South Wales.

Bow frog

Yet the Tourte model of more than three centuries remained the standard, until the introduction of the Galliane frog in 2012 by bow maker Benoît Rolland.

Brimley's chorus frog

Brimley's chorus frog (Pseudacris brimleyi) is a species of frog in the Hylidae family, endemic to the United States, and is named for North Carolina zoologist C.S. Brimley.

Burnaburiash I

He was also father of Ulam-Buriyåš, as commemorated on an onyx weight, in the shape of a frog, with a cuneiform inscription, “1 shekel, Ulam Buriaš, son of Burna Buriaš,” which was found in a large burial, during excavations of the site of the ancient city of Metsamor.

C. major

Copiula major, a frog species found in Indonesia and possibly Papua New Guinea

Chile Darwin's frog

The Chile Darwin's frog has a very restricted range in central Chile, being found in Talca Province and southwards to Bío Bío Province, between from 33° 30'S to 37° 50'S.

D. nanus

Dendropsophus nanus, a frog species found in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay

Elmer Chambers

Dallas Elmer Chambers, also called Frog and Muffle Jaws Chambers (1897, Bayonne, New Jersey - ca. 1952, Jersey City, New Jersey) was an American jazz trumpeter.

Fejervarya

Any or all of Euphlyctis, Hoplobatrachus, Nannophrys and Sphaerotheca are closer relatives of some species included in Feyervarya sensu lato than the latter are to their supposed congeners.

Fiji Ground Frog

The Fiji ground frog is found on four larger islands (Taveuni, Vanua Levu, Ovalau, and Gau) and a small island, Viwa, (0.6 ha) off the eastern coast of the main island (Viti Levu) of the Fiji archipelago.

Founders Brewing Company

2009: Karl Denson’s Tiny Universe, Mucca Pazza, Ultraviolet Hippopotamus, Chance Jones, Four Finger Five, Oracle, Back Forty, The Total Blam Blams, Red Frog

Frog battery

Leopoldo Nobili built a frog battery in 1818 out of complete frog legs which he called a frog pile.

Frog Design Inc.

More recently, frog has worked for clients such as GE, Microsoft, Siemens, Intel, Lufthansa, HP, and UNICEF.

Gardiner's Seychelles frog

Gardiner's frog is a terrestrial frog, feeding on small invertebrates including mites, sciarid larvae, ants, and amphipods.

H. frontalis

Hyperolius frontalis, a frog species found in Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda

Haswell's frog

The Haswell's frog (Paracrinia haswelli) is a small ground frog found around coastal swamps in eastern Australia from around Port Macquarie, New South Wales to the Mornington Peninsula in Victoria.

Japanese tree frog

The Japanese tree frog (Hyla japonica) is a species of tree frog distributed from Hokkaidō to Yakushima in Japan and from Korea along the Ussuri River to northeastern China, northern Mongolia, and the southern Russian Far East.

Jeremy Enigk

In 2006, he followed Frog Queen with another solo album, World Waits on his own label, Lewis Hollow Records.

Large toadlet

The Large Toadlet or Great Toadlet or Major Toadlet (Pseudophryne major) is a species of ground-dwelling frog native to eastern Queensland (including Moreton and North Stradbroke Island and northern New South Wales, Australia.

Litoria chloris

Litoria chloris, also commonly known as the red-eyed tree frog or orange-eyed tree frog, is a species of tree frog native to eastern Australia; ranging from north of Sydney to Proserpine in mid-northern Queensland.

M. gouldii

Myobatrachus gouldii, the turtle frog, a frog species found in Western Australia

Marungu highlands

Hyperolius nasicus is a small, slender tree frog with a markedly pointed snout, a very poorly known member of the controversial Hyperolius nasutus group.

Mindanao horned frog

There are over thirty-four bird species native to the area, of which more than half, such as the Mindanao Scops Owl, the Philippine Eagle-Owl, and the Blue-capped Kingfisher, prey on the Mindanao horned frog.

Mint poison dart frog

Green and black poison dart frog (Dendrobates auratus) or mint poison frog, a medium-sized poison dart frog from Central and South America

Mountain stream tree frog

The mountain stream tree frog, (Litoria barringtonensis) is a species of tree frog native to highland areas of NSW, Australia stretching from the Myall Lakes area, north to around Dorrigo National Park and west to Barrington Tops National Park.

Mozambique Ridged Frog

The call of these frog is a series of harsh nasal kwe-kwe or wah-wah-wah clucks, repeated at the rate of two per second, much like the quacking of the Egyptian Goose.

Nucleolus

During that year, a study of nucleoli by John Gurdon and Donald Brown in the African clawed frog Xenopus laevis, generated increasing interest in the function and detailed structure of the nucleolus.

O'Reilly v. Morse

” To send a signal from Baltimore to Washington would require thousands of volts and high currents – not feasible at a time when managing to make a pickled frog’s legs twitch, as Luigi Galvani and Alessandro Volta did, was the major achievement of the electro-galvanic force.

P. minutus

Phrynobatrachus minutus, a frog species found in Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda

Prosalirus

Prosalirus bitis is the name given to a fossil frog found in Arizona in 1981 by Farish Jenkins, which has primitive features, but has mostly lost the salamander-like traits of its ancestors.

Rainbow Connection

Kermit the Frog also reprises the song in The Muppets, this time as a duet with Miss Piggy that leads into the entire Muppet group singing together.

Rhacophorus reinwardtii

Rhacophorus reinwardtii is a species of frog in the Rhacophoridae family.

Ron Sweed

The character of Froggy, together with his own catch phrase "Hiya Kids! Hiya! Hiya! Hiya!" and the associated command "Pluck your magic twanger, Froggy" (his signal to appear from a puff of smoke together with a twanging sound effect) are actually remnants from a much earlier children's television show Andy's Gang where an identical rubber frog toy made appearances as Froggy the Gremlin.

Ryan Mullins

Mullins' first feature documentary The Frog Princes, co-directed with Omar Majeed, follows the behind-the-scenes efforts of a special needs theatre troupe, as they work to mount an ambitious adaptation of The Frog and the Princess.

Sangzhi County

Rana sangzhiensis is a frog that was described as a new species for science from Sangzhi.

Super Cholita

In her civilian identity she is the Aymara woman Francisca Pizzaro Mamani, daughter of a cholita and a nameless pepino (a traditional carnival clown often deemed responsible for fatherless children), and granddaughter of a mythical highland frog.

Svjetlan Junaković

In 2001 he won prizes at the Biennial of Illustration Bratislava for Mit Pauken und Trompeten (With Bass Drums and Trumpets) and Roter Frosch, grüner Flamingo (Red Frog, Greener Flamingo).

The Quest for Kalevala

In the scene where Iku-Turso climbs on top of the Helsinki Cathedral, the Finnish bum's quote "That's the second biggest frog I ever saw" is a reference to the spy parody show Get Smart.

Tiebreak Theatre

Frog in Love (2002) by David Farmer, based on books by Max Velthuijs.

Valley City, Ohio

Valley City is known for being "The Frog Jump Capital of Ohio." Since 1962, it has held an annual contest patterned after Mark Twain's story, "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County." On April 2, 1964, two years after the first contest was held, Governor Jim Rhodes proclaimed this contest the official state frog jumping championship.

Water frog

Pelophylax, a genus of frog widespread in Eurasia, with a few species ranging into northern Africa

Western Gulf coastal grasslands

Rancho Nuevo beach in Tamaulipas is the only nesting site in the world for the Kemp's Ridley sea turtle (Lepidochelys kempii) while other herpetofauna of the ecoregion include Río Grande Chirping Frog (Eleutherodactylus cystignathoides) and Mexican White-lipped Frog (Leptodactylus fragilis).


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