Whoa! Smell That?
Ears like cymbals…
good for swimming, no water gets in.
A diet of snails, aquatic insects, snails, dragon and damsel flies,
any insect found around lily pads fuels metabolism.
Don’t call it lily pad frog.
Lily pads are for protection from predators.
Females lay from 500-4,000 eggs in an underwater cluster.
Why so many? Frogs are food in a wetland/lake food web.
Adults live from 2-4 years…a short life.
It happens when other things eat you.
Sometimes this frog gets the survival upper hand.
Catch one, smell your hand, it smells like skunk-or mink.
Call it the Mink Frog.
Lily pads are home habitat for this medium sized frog…with and odor problem.
Kick the legs, a quick twist of their webbed feet and they’re gone!
Made for underwater hearing, the Mink frog’s eardrum if visible just behind its eye. Males have tympani larger than their eyes. This is a male.
We’ll call this frog “King of the Pond.”