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  2. Northern cricket frog - Wikipedia

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    For example, the same study had shown that in certain parts of Illinois that are more industrialized and had organochlorine peptides there was a larger proportion of intersex frogs. In the case of Illinois, this was in the northeast. However, more environmentally friendly regions, like southern Illinois, had a more diverse frog population. [22]

  3. Pig frog - Wikipedia

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    Pig frogs are opportunistic feeders and will eat a wide variety of prey, including insects, worms, and small vertebrates. Their primary diet is crawfish, but like most bullfrogs, they will consume almost anything they can swallow, including insects, fish, and other frogs. They are known to feed on beetles, dragonflies, crayfish, and other ...

  4. Illinois chorus frog - Wikipedia

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    The Illinois chorus frogs' preferred habitat in Arkansas includes the patch of sandy wetland soil surrounding Stuttgart, Arkansas where rice is grown. However, the invention of laser land-levelling , and its use by rice paddy operators, has eliminated 61% of the subspecies' range in this southern state.

  5. Wood frog - Wikipedia

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    Wood frogs range from 51 to 70 mm (2.0 to 2.8 in) in length. Females are larger than males. [5] [6] Adult wood frogs are usually brown, tan, or rust-colored, and usually have a dark eye mask. [7] Individual frogs are capable of varying their color; Conant (1958) depicts one individual which was light brown and dark brown at different times.

  6. Frog - Wikipedia

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    The eyes assist in the swallowing of food as they can be retracted through holes in the skull and help push food down the throat. [54] [76] The food then moves through the oesophagus into the stomach where digestive enzymes are added and it is churned up. It then proceeds to the small intestine (duodenum and ileum) where most digestion occurs.

  7. Northern leopard frog - Wikipedia

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    Two burnsi morphs, a green morph, and a brown morph of the northern leopard frog Brown morph northern leopard frog in a wood chip pile in Iowa. The northern leopard frog has several different color variations, with the most common two being the green and the brown morphs, with another morph known as the burnsi morph. Individuals with the burnsi morph coloration lack spots on their backs, but ...

  8. Moor frog - Wikipedia

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    Moor frogs also consume non-insect invertebrates from the orders gastropoda (snails and slugs), arachnida, and myriapoda (centipedes and millipedes). [16] Beetles make up the majority of the moor frog's diet due to their abundance. Large moor frogs do appear to have a preference for beetles because they are larger than most other insect prey.

  9. Tailed frog - Wikipedia

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    The tailed frogs are two species of frogs in the genus Ascaphus, [1] the only taxon in the family Ascaphidae / æ ˈ s k æ f ɪ d iː /. [2] The "tail" in the name is actually an extension of the male cloaca. The tail is one of two distinctive anatomical features adapting the species to life in fast-flowing streams.