If someone told you that you could visit a place where there are blue frogs and frogs that could fly, would you believe them? Well you could find frogs just like that if you visited the Rainforest. The diversity of frogs that live in the Rainforest is amazing. Nowhere is there such a wide range of colors, sizes and survival strategies. Horned toads are camouflaged to look like dead leaves, while the brilliant colors of tiny poison arrow frogs advertize that they're toxic. Glass frogs are so transparent that their bone, muscles and internal organs will show right through their skin. An amazing frog found in the Rainforest is the Asian flying frog, if it feels threatened it will escape by gliding away on four parachutes of skin stretched between the toes of each foot.
Tropical rainforest frogs are divided
between the cleverly camouflaged and the distinctly gaudy. The vivid
crimsons, golds, lime greens and yellows of the rainforests' flashiest
amphibians indicate the presence of skin toxins and act as a warning to
would be predators. As a defense, it works: birds avoid brightly
colored frogs although some snakes are immune to the toxins. Other
frogs may only become visible as they move, exposing a bright patch
of blue or red under their legs known as a flash color. Again, this is a
form of defense mechanism, as the flash color is supposed to startle
the predator giving the frog time to escape.
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