froglet
Americannoun
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froglets
plural
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a young frog, particularly one that has only recently metamorphosed from a tadpole or emerged from an egg.
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a small adult frog, particularly those from the Myobatrachidae family.
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You can watch the moment a Southern Darwin's froglet is 'born' in this clip from Sir David Attenborough's landmark nature series Life on Earth.
From BBC ● Feb. 2, 2025
During these weeks, a frog embryo develops to a young tadpole, a tadpole with two legs, and a young froglet with four legs before reaching the adult stage.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 26, 2024
"The remarkable thing about this frog is the drastic nature of its change in colour pattern as it matures from a tiny froglet into adulthood," Dr Kraus says.
From BBC ● Jan. 29, 2010
Southern Darwin's frog tadpoles grow up inside the vocal sacs of their fathers and are 'born' through their mouths as froglets.
From BBC ● Feb. 2, 2025
In early spring, the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife collected northern leopard frog eggs and took them to Northwest Trek and the Oregon Zoo to grow from egg masses to tadpoles to froglets.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 7, 2023
On Thursday morning, staff helped load ice chests containing 175 froglets from the aquarium and 25 from the Santa Ana Zoo into vehicles that transported them to the mountains.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2022
We learn, for instance, how baby koalas ingest their mothers’ faeces to inoculate their gut microbiomes, and that female gastric-brooding frogs vomited up their froglets.
From Nature ● Mar. 27, 2018
Born with completely white skin, froglets darken to green a few days after hatching before that pigment bleeds to yellow, a warning sign to predators to stay far away.
From Washington Post
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