What is the difference between frogs and toads? Detailed answer

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What is the difference between frogs and toads?

Many people are surprised when they learn that there is a difference between frogs and toads. Although there are certain differences, in the main features they are the same. They belong to non-warm-blooded animals and live both in water and on land.

Most frogs and toads are very similar to each other, and it can be very difficult to determine which one is which. Frogs are smooth and slippery, long and graceful. Most toads are lean, warty, and stocky. Many frogs have teeth, but toads don't.

Most amphibians lay eggs, and frogs and toads are the same in this. Their eggs resemble specks of mud floating on the surface of the water in a jelly-like substance. The eggs hatch into small tadpoles that look more like fish than amphibians.

Tadpoles breathe with gills and have a long tail, but no legs. It takes 3 to 25 days before a tadpole emerges from the egg. After another 3-4 months, his gills and tail will disappear, but legs and lungs will appear. But it will take about a year before the tadpole finally turns into a frog or toad. And these creatures sometimes live up to 30-40 years.

The toad lays fewer eggs than the frog. In total, from 4000 to 12 pieces per year, but a female bull frog from 000 to 18 in one season!

There are species of toads in which males play a decisive role in hatching eggs. The male of one such species of European toad wraps the eggs around his leg and sits in a hole in the ground with them until they are ready to hatch. Then he again transfers them to the pond.

But in toads living in South America, eggs hatch in depressions on the back of their parents. These pits are covered with skin and filled with fluid. The young stay there until they turn into tadpoles.

Toads living in temperate climates are usually brown or olive in color. But in the tropics they are very bright. It is completely safe to take them in your hands.

Author: Likum A.

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What is coral?

Coral is one of the most curious and amazing objects in the world! To begin with, it should be said that red corals have been valued on a par with precious stones since time immemorial. But even more interesting is the huge number of superstitions associated with coral.

The Romans hung pieces of coral around the child's neck to ward off danger. They believed that coral could prevent or cure disease. In some places in Italy, coral is still worn to protect themselves from the "evil eye". And the most amazing thing is that the coral has changed the geography of the world!

What is coral? This is the skeleton of a coral polyp, a tiny jelly-like marine organism with many small tentacles. The polyp produces a calcareous substance that makes up the skeleton, which forms in the form of a cup that surrounds the polyp from all sides. First, the polyp is attached to the surface of the rock under water, and a new polyp buds from it. When the old polyp dies, living polyps continue to remain on its skeleton, and new ones in turn bud off from them. This is how coral is formed, as more and more generations of polyps grow on the skeletons of their predecessors. So coral grows layer by layer, and from them islands and reefs are formed in the ocean. These organisms are found in warm and tropical waters.

Corals are mainly found in the South Pacific, the Indian Ocean, the Mediterranean, and off the coast of Florida, Mexico, and the West Indies. The most significant coral formations are called fringing reefs, barrier reefs and atolls.

Fringing reefs are underwater coral patches attached to coastal rocks and out to the ocean. Barrier reefs are not connected to the mainland, but grow in the ocean at some distance from the coast. Atolls are ring-shaped coral islands. The Great Barrier Reef, located off the coast of Australia in the Queensland region, stretches for 1260 miles.

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