Long ago, when the continents were merged together as one, the animals and the humans walked among each other. Each continent was split up with a twenty foot trench that led directly to the center of the earth. On the border of one of the trenches was the small town of Pillowsville. In this town, lived a group of frogs. In Pillowsville, everyone stated within the town limits and they were happy with the way things were, except for Danny.…
The article and the lecture are both about the cane toad in Australia. The author of the article believes that it is possible to stop the spreading of the cane toad population. The lecturer casts doubt on the claims made in the reading. She thinks that taking the measures mentioned in the reading may be unsuccessful and seriously damage the ecology of Australia.…
It is necessary that we keep the population of these toads under control.…
In "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" by Mark Twain, there is a definite structure to each layout of events. This blueprint consists of events and the use of literary devices, which bring to light the events of the story. The use of events and literary devices throughout the story is instrumental in relaying the implausibility that shapes humor created by Twain.…
1. Where is the frog’s heart compared to its lungs? How do the locations of these two organs affect interactions between the frog’s respiratory and circulatory systems?…
Quote: “It is like this, small baas. The professor is known as ‘Amasele’ (‘The Frog’), because he plays his peeano at night when the prison is quiet. To the Zulus the frog makes always the loudest music at night, much louder than the cricket or the owl. So it is simple, you see. You are the small boy of the frog, which makes you a tadpole” (230).…
In the past few years, citizens of Minnesota have discovered deformed frogs scattered throughout the state. There are many speculations as to how the frogs got such deformities. Some scientists believe that its something in the waters of the Minnesota wetlands, other factors could be parasites or ultraviolet radiation. Minnesota is not the only location in the world that has reported deformed animal sightings, but almost three-quarters of the deformed frogs were reported in Minnesota. This is not necessarily because Minnesota contains the most deformed frogs, because scientists are unsure if that is true. Residents of Minnesota are most aware to the problem, so they are basically looking out for the frogs. Deformed frogs are most commonly missing limbs, have extra limbs, or have some bent limbs. Also, there are internal deformities that one would not be able to tell just from looking at the frog. These include digestive and urinary problems, and a slow ability to eat, avoid predators, and move. Because of this most frogs do not survive the winter, and if they do, deformed frogs do not advance on to a second year of living. Deformities do not occur in all frogs, the most common frogs with these malfunctions include the wood frog, American toad, and the northern leopard frog. Since deformed frogs have been found in ponds and both the urban and rural parts of Minnesota, scientists have concluded that well water can produce such malfunctions. Several tests have been preformed on the water that Minnesota residents are drinking and nothing has been found. The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency and the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences have been performing tests to help solve the problem of deformed frogs in Minnesota.…
Another reason the frogs population began to rise again was because they finally figured out staying in large groups helped their survival. Like many other endangered species there is always one rule of survival that always seems to be applied in every environment and that is either adapt or die off and it seems the California red legged frog realized that if they want to stay alive that they need to be in packs and also the land contribution helped the survival of the frogs to where they don’t die off and increase their population, even though some frogs became extinct from not knowing to adapt to the situation.…
The Cane Toad is native to the Amazon Basin which is located in South America. The Cane Toad was first introduced to Florida to control pests that would inhabit the sugar cane crops between the 1930s to the 1940s. It is said that the reason of the overgrowing population of the Cane Toad is because of the illegal pet trade in the 1950s and 1960s. The Cane Toad can be found in the urban, suburban, and agricultural parts of Florida. There are many concerns about the threats that the Cane Toad has on the natives of Florida, some of the concerns is the skin-gland secretions of the Cane Toad are very toxic that can sicken or kill animals that prey on them. The skin secretions of the Cane Toad can irritate the skin or burn the eyes of people who touch them. There are many methods that are used to remove the Cane Toad, some of the methods are to hand-collect the Cane Toads and dispose of them, or use animal traps to capture them. Rewards have been put up to eradicate them for excessive amounts of money for example in 2004 a 44 million dollar reward was put up to eradicate the Cane Toad becuase of the harm it was…
When it comes to Mark Twain, this book used various forms of dialect and exaggeration. Combining these two forms of writing or literature increases the interest of the story as well as the humor. Mr.Twain switches the two every so often, which never leaves the reader bored or uninterested.Within the story of The Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, it is literally a story about nothing, but the reader does not realize, because of the regional dialects of the different places which adds to the humorous portion of the text due to the way the characters speak. We see examples of this once the narrator goes to investigate about the supposed Leonidas W. Smiley, which leads to the introduction of Mr.Jim Smiley, who has nothing to do with Mr. Leonidas.…
The African Tree Toad has a small veriaty of species of toad in the forest of Central Africa. Today they are still known about their tiny amphibian. They are decreasing their population numbers of the African Tree Toads are making it increasingly difficult for us to learn more about them. They have a lot of simaliar size and colour but tend to differ in the religions they live in. They can be found in the Central African ranges in countries such as Cameroon, Democrtic Republic of the Congo, and Equatorial Guinea, Gabon and Nigrtia.…
1. There is a greatr concentration of Na+ f ; there is a greater concentration of K+ e .…
The heart is the centerpiece of the circulatory system, its muscular contractions allow for the timely delivery of essential gases and nutrients to virtually all cells of the body. The pressure created by the heart also plays a vital role in eliminating wastes through organs such as the kidney, thus the heart delivers and helps maintain nutrient and waste composition throughout the body. The heart, like all muscle cells, releases ionic calcium when stimulated which binds to troponin which in turn causes tropomyosin to uncover the myosin-actin binding sites on the muscle. Temperature has effects on the metabolism and activity of all cells. Warmer temperatures increase the kinetic energy of molecules in cells, providing more energy which allows metabolic processes to proceed more quickly. Cooler temperatures, on the other hand, decrease molecular kinetic energy and cause slower metabolic rates in cells and tissues, hence when a bear hibernates, its body temperature is some degree lower than it is during the bear’s active periods.…
This poem follows the dilemma of an aged frog who knows not whether he wants to be “disenchanted” or remain a frog. Through the use of rhetorical questions, Smith is about to lend readers better comprehension of precisely what the frog ponders:…
A frog’s respiratory system is much different than humans. First, the lungs in a frog have thin walls and are shaped like balloons. When frogs swim, they fill their lungs with air, which helps them stay buoyant while swimming. Frogs also do not have diaphragms compared to humans. They only breathe through their nose. They use muscles in their throat sacs to help move the air in, and then is pushed to the lungs. During this time, their mouth is closed. Body contractions allow the frogs to release carbon dioxide. When us humans breathe in, the diaphragm lets the lungs stretch out so air can move in.…
