By: Vy Dinh
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| Ecology: The study of interactions among organisms
and their environment. Ecosystem: All the organisms living in an area and the non living features of their environment. - FIrst of all, frogs are a kind of small animal belonging to a group called vertebrates (animals with backbones) known as amphibians. - This mean that they live part of their life in water and the other part of it on land. - The Pickerel Frog is usually found in the wetlands, lakes, ponds and are found in grassy field in the summer. - They prefer the presence of permanent, slow moving water. A lake or pond forms when a low place in the land fills with rainwater, snow melt, or water from a stream. The water of lakes and ponds sometimes barely move at all. They contain more plant growth than flowing water environments contain. Food: Did you know that frogs are very carnivorous. If they were the size of lions this world wouldn't be safe for human beings, because they are voracious when it comes to their food. Frogs eat other frogs of the same size. It makes you wonder what would happen if they were of giant size. But most of the frogs in this variety eat insects and worms, spiders and small fish. |
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| Water & Adaptation:
Amphibians are a cold bloodednimals. This mean that their
body temperature is the same as the surrounding temperature. Their skin
absorbs water into their body so they do not have to drink water to survive.
Frogs also have webbed feet for swimming. Some have suction disks on the
tip of their toes to help them climb. The frog has enemies that will eat
them. Human beings eat them and also destroy their natural habitat and
prevent them from breeding. Different species of frogs have different
kinds of protection. Some have poison glands in their skin, like a chemical
warfare tactic. The skin will secret and cover the body with the poison
and this will deter the enemy from eating them. Some use colors to protect
themselves. Some will be very brightly colored body (especially red and
yellow) to warn enemies that it taste bad or are poisonous, so stay away! |
| Temperature: The
frogs temperature change when the temperatures of their surrounding
changes. During the cool winter months, they become inactive. They
bury themselves in mud or leaves until the temperature warms up.
Amphibians that live in hot, dry environments have other adaptations.
They become inactive and hide in the ground, when temperatures become
extreme. This kind of inactivity during the hot, dry summer months
is called estivation. |
The
limiting factor for Pickerel Frogs,
are what they really need which is water, shelter and food. Pickerel
Frogs like clean water, so if there was a polluted lake
and/or no more food in that ecosystem, then the frogs would go elsewhere.
Frogs population would decrease if fish were to kill them. Those are
the 3 limiting factors of most frogs. (Shelter, food, and water) |
Relating: Each species of frog has
their own call or language. That way when a male goes out his place on
the bank of a pond or a creek, or wherever he may be, he starts croaking
and the one that has the deepest sound and is the most wanting, he probably
will attract females first. Only the females of this species frog will
be coming because they are the only ones that understand the croaking
or the language that this frog is calling. |
| FACTS: - Frogs are very territorial. As another male frog comes by, he will fight him. Sometimes they fight a duel to death. - When frogs jump they use their hind legs. That's another adaptation for frogs. - A symbiotic relationship for frogs is commensalism. One of spiders favorite food is frogs. But sometimes frog become the spiders bodyguard. They watch out for other predators that will eat the spiders eggs. In return they don't get eaten. |
