Interesting Facts

Wood Frogs

Wood Frogs
Now that the weather is warming and the winter’s wood frog in waterice is melting wood frogs are emerging to mate and lay their eggs. The male wood frogs’ duck-like quacking calls can be heard where there are seasonal pools or wetlands in wooded areas. Often the pools contains large numbers of calling males; the females, apparently attracted to the calls, make their way to the pools where the males quickly grasp them in a nuptial wood frog eggsembrace called amplexus. Wood frogs are normally a shade of brown with a darker, almost black, raccoon-like mask; they spend the warm months feeding on the forest floor. Wood frog egg masses are gelatinous masses in seasonal pools; as the embryos grow they appear as black spots within the eggs.

Here’s a link to New Hampshire Public Television’s “Wildlife Journal Junior” where you can listen to a Wood Frog’s call.