Things to Find Out
Questions from the original Key to the Nature Library to send you back into Frogs — and out of doors.
- What is the life history of a toad? Of a frog?
- How do the eyes of a toad help him to swallow difficult mouthfuls?
- What are the proofs that the toad is the gardener's best friend?
- Read the account of a toad's twilight hunting.
- Why does a skunk carefully rub a frightened toad on the grass before eating it?
- What is there poisonous about frogs and toads?
- Read the detailed account of the process of shedding the toad's skin.
- What are the enemies of toads?
- What is a toad's method of singing and talking?
- How does a toad capture and swallow its prey?
- What shall one believe as to toads producing warts?
- Toads embedded in rocks? Toads raining down?
- What is a toad's defence against enemies?
- What is the toad's peculiar mode of "drinking"?
- What is the evidence that frogs are far-sighted?
- What is the most terrifying sound that a frog ever hears?
- Why does a frog "swell up" when in danger, and how does he do it?
- Which is more excited when in danger, toad or frog?
- What was Celia Thaxter's testimony as to the value of garden toads?
- How are frogs' eggs to be distinguished from toads?
- What are the stages of development in the embryo of a frog?
- Read the author's charming introduction of the tree frogs.
- How do tree frogs cling? What do they eat?
- How is the tree frog able to avoid being seen by enemies?
- How does a toad catch a fly?
- How does a toad eat a worm?
- Touch a frog's eye lightly with a pencil and see the third eye-lid.
- How do toads escape their enemies?
- What garden enemies do toads eat?
- At what hours are toads most active?
- Why do toads change their skins?
- How often, and how?
- What becomes of the old one?
- Why do toads play dead?
- How and where do toads and frogs spend the winter? (See Hibernation.)
- How old do toads live to be?
- How do toads look when they sing?
- How do frogs breathe under water?
- How does their colour defend toads and frogs from their enemies? Frontispiece.
- What economic value have frogs?
- What colour changes are frogs and tree toads able to make at will?
- Read about the peepers.
- Life story of bull frog.
- Life story of leopard frog.
- Life story of garden toad.
- Life story of common tree frog.