thrive in Japanese rice paddies. Frogs, lacking teeth, are known to swallow their prey whole. In an experiment, Sugiura fed a black-spotted pond frog with 15 aquatic beetles. Fourteen of them emer ...

It adds: "Ponds are a vital frog habitat and important for other amphibians too, as they're where they reproduce. Ponds are also vital hydration spots for frogs as they don't drink through their ...

RANGE: Formerly, the frog occurred in the Coastal Plain from Alabama to Mississippi and Louisiana, but it now exists in only three ponds in Mississippi: Glen's Pond, Mike's Pond (50 miles east of Glen ...