Small Czech Frogs

Although they are known across the globe to one thousand kinds of frogs, in Europe there are relatively few of their representatives. There are only thirteen species, which can be found here.

Frog is amphibian

Frogs (Anura) are the order of amphibians, which also include tables cervori (beznozi) and mloci (ocasati). The exact number of species of frogs can not with certainty, because the still ongoing research in areas not yet neprozkoumanych, mainly in tropical rainforests, and also because the science is so advanced that we can use the more accurate method than the classical morphological - studying the shape and structure. Therefore, they are additionally distinguished those species, which differ by almost zevnejskem and were considered to be still one species.

Frogs are divided into seven families: kunkoviti, pipoviti, blatnicoviti, Toads, rosnickoviti, skokanoviti and most pralesnickoviti.We are in the wild not only representatives pipovitych and pralesnickovitych; from other live here at least one representative.

Our frogs

Representatives of most of our frogs are toads and jumper. The most general is the toad (Bufo bufo), which can nevertheless be seen rarely in nature: as a typical terrestrial frog through the day hiding in the rocks, fissures in the rocks or in rodent norach and food come up in the night. Only short-term reproduction of it can be seen in the water - in man-made reservoirs, ponds and swamps, streams and even in exceptionally rickach. The life she meet pahorkatinach in mixed forests and mountains, and may occur from the lowlands to higher altitude.If the mating period, water does not. Live the night mostly insects, worms, snails, spiders and svinkami.

Migrate long distances well managed, despite his clumsiness. The males measure approximately nine inches, females to fifteen. Their color may be pale ocher to dark brown, with svetlejsim pain, which is sometimes dark marbled. The entire top of the body has the general toad nipples and also two significant toxic parotid gland. From bradavek to exclude toxic bufotoxiny skin that can cause unpleasant person complications if it reaches the mucous membranes of nose or eyes.

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