Mount Baw Baw Frog

1. Mount Baw Baw Frog

2. The Mount Baw Baw frogs scientific name is Philoria Frosti. Some of the colours of the frog are black, brown, cream or yellow on its chest. Its size is about 4.5 centimetres long. However, if you are calling the Baw Baw frog you would have to do a short single note repeated up to thirty times. A unique thing about the frog is that as tadpoles they do not need to eat. When they’re born they still have a little yolk inside them, left over from the egg. This gives them energy to survive without food as tadpoles. Some of the places that the Baw Baw frog are found are beneath streamside logs and in bogs. Daniel’s sketch

3. 10 interesting facts The scientific name for the Mount Baw Baw frog is Philoria Frosti. The length of the frog is round about 4.5 centimetres or above. One of the threats that the Baw Baw frog has is recreational developments and changes in weather patterns. If you are calling the Baw Baw frog you would have to say a short single note repeated up to thirty times. Some of the places that the Baw Baw frog are found are beneath streamside logs and in adjacent sphagnum bogs. Less than 30 000 Baw Baw frogs are still living. When tadpoles are born they don’t eat because their mouth is reduced to a form that is almost totally non-functional. Mount Baw Baw frogs are restricted to an 80 square kilometre mountainous territory in the Victorian highlands. The complete cycle form eggs to adult frogs in the period November to March. Some of the different colours that the Baw Baw frog has are black, brown and on their chest or stomach yellow.

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5. Bibliography Computer: Google images http://frogs.org.au/frogs/species/Philoria/frosti/ http://www.environment.gov.au/cgi-bin/sprat/public/publicspecies.pl?taxon_id=1934 Book: Australia’s Endangered Wildlife

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