Weird Frogs

Everywhere you go there are weird animals that crawl, swim, or fly. They surround us every day and yet we pay little attention to these strange creatures. Take amphibians like frogs, we have all seen them. I mean a frog is a frog right? Well I am going to show you a few frogs on this website that just might change the way you look at frogs. I hope you enjoy them and maybe learn something along the way.

Red Eyed Tree Frog

The Red Eyed Tree Frog kind of breaks the mold when it comes to creatures with bright colors being poisonous. This little guy is actually non poisonous and most scientist believe that it uses it's bright colored body in an effort to get a mate.

The red eyed tree frog spends almost it's entire life living in trees, and on a stranger note it is obvious that these little frogs get their name from the incredibly large red eyes that this frog has, but what is not quite so obvious these frogs have three eyelids if that isn't weird!

Poison Dart Frog

The Poison Dart Frog also known as the poison arrow frog has been used by the native people of Central and South America to get toxic secretions from these frogs to tip their blow darts and arrow with. That is how these frogs got their name.

The Poison Dart Frog although there are many different variations of it can be easily recognized because of it's bright colors. Like a lot of other poisonous creatures they use their bright vivid color to warn any possible predator away!

Amazonian Horned Frog

The Amazonian Horned Frog also known as the Suriname Horned Frog, or by its scientific name Ceratophrys cornuta is another weird frog. These frogs are well known for their extremely wide mouths, horn like bumps over each of their eyes, along with being super aggressive for a frog.

These frogs are so aggressive that as soon as their eggs hatch and the begin swimming around as tadpoles they will attack other tadpoles even if it is another Amazonian Horned Frog. These frogs have also been known to bite other animals and humans if the feel threatened.

Purple Frogs

Have you ever heard of purple frogs before? If not then you are not alone, because this strange looking frog was just recently discovered in 2003. Purple frogs have hidden themselves from scientist and biologists all these years by living underground and only coming out during the monsoon season that hist the Western Ghats of India.

During the monsoon season these rare frogs come out only for a week or two to breed and then they go right back into their holes underground. I would have to say that as frogs go this one has to be one of the stranger colored frogs that I have seen!