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First edition (published by Charles Henry Webb) " The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County " is an 1865 short story by Mark Twain. It was his first great success as a writer and brought him national attention. [1] The story has also been published as " Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog " (its original title) and " The Notorious Jumping ...
Frog jumping contest. Frog jumping is a competitive pastime for humans in which frogs are entered into competitions to jump certain distances. Frog jumping contests are held in small communities scattered around the United States, as part of the folk culture. Frog jumping was made famous in a short story called "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of ...
Rana fontinalis Holbrook, 1842. Rana clamitans Latreille, 1801[2][3][4] Lithobates clamitans[5] or Rana clamitans, [2][6][7] commonly known as the green frog, is a species of frog native to eastern North America. The two subspecies are the bronze frog and the northern green frog. These frogs, as described by their name, typically have varying ...
Line #1: By show of fingers, hold up the number of frogs sitting on the log. Line #2: Draw in your hands close to your chest and curl your fingers downward, facing the floor as though you are a frog perched atop a log. Line #3: Mimic eating while you sing 'Eating some most delicious bugs', then rub your belly delightfully while singing 'yum, yum!'.
Added to NRHP. March 24, 1972. The Angels Hotel in Angels Camp, California, was the hotel where the author Mark Twain heard a story that he would later turn into his short story "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County". [2] The hotel was originally a canvas tent erected by C. C. Lake in 1851, and replaced by a one-story wooden structure.
Coquí is a common name for several species of small frogs in the genus Eleutherodactylus native to Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. They are onomatopoeically named for the very loud mating call which the males of two species, the common coqui and the upland coqui, make at night. The coquí is one of the most common frogs in Puerto Rico ...
Archey's frog (Leiopelma archeyi) is an archaic species of frog endemic to the North Island of New Zealand. [1][2] It is one of only three extant species belonging to the taxonomic family Leiopelmatidae. It is found only in the Coromandel Peninsula and near Te Kūiti in the North Island of New Zealand. This species, along with others in the ...
Rainforest rocket frog jumping Jumping. Frogs are generally recognised as exceptional jumpers and, relative to their size, the best jumpers of all vertebrates. [104] The striped rocket frog, Litoria nasuta, can leap over two metres (6 + 1 ⁄ 2 feet), a distance that is more than fifty times its body length of 55 mm (2 + 1 ⁄ 4 in). [105]