European tree Frog
Facts about this animal An elegant slim frog with very long and slim hind legs and a body length of 3 – 4 cm (up to 5 cm). The skin is very smooth. Green with an uninterrupted dorsolateral black line bordered with white from the nose down on both sides. Sometimes specimens may be greyish-brown. The belly is whitish. The pupil of the eye is horizontal. Most of the year they live on dry land. During daytime they often doze on the stems and broad leaves of trees, bushes and large herbaceous vegetation in full sunlight (contrary to other frogs they loose relatively little water due to special skin secretion). In the evening and at night they search on land for insects, spiders and snails. Its ability for long leaps makes it possible to forage on fast flying insects. The males gather from April to July in water bodies for nightly choirs, which can be heard from up to 1 km. The females visit the water bodies only for one night. The male clasps the female from above and the latter lays 500-1000 eggs, which are laid in individual small packages. Tadpoles hatch already after 4-8 days. They frequent the open water, where they are easy pray for fish and water insects. If the water temperature allows it, the metamorphose will occur in 40-60 days. In winter these frogs undergo a cold rigor, deeply hidden under moss, roots, stones or grass or in the earth (even in mouse holes
Size: 3744px × 5616px
Location: uk
Photo credit: © TomsPhotos / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: 3, 5, adhesive, amphibian, arborea, areas, asia., body, bright, british, brown, climb, cms, colour, coloured, consists, dark, diet, discs, dorsal, enables, europe, european, finger, fingers, flying, frog, frogs, front, granular, green, grey, growing, hibernate, hind, hip., hyla, insects, insects., jump, lack, leaves, legs, length., longer, months, nature, nostril, olive, overgrown, prefer, rapidly., runs, side, small, smooth, stripe, strong, surface, texture, texture., toe, toes, tree, trees, underside, water, webbed, webbing, western, white/cream, wildlife, winter, yellow
