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A Frog is a small, tail less animal that has bulging eyes. Almost all frogs have long back legs. The strong hind legs make the frog able to leap farther than the length of its body. Frogs live on every continent except Antarctica, but tropical regions have the greatest number of species. Frogs are classified as amphibians. Most amphibians, including most frogs, spend part of their life as a water animal and part as a …

…southwestern Canada. The moving water makes external fertilization of the eggs difficult. Instead, the male uses a tail like structure to fertilize the eggs while they are inside the female. Tadpoles of tailed frogs have a large sucker that enables them to hold on to rocks even in the strongest current. Bibliography Wright, Albert H. and A. A. Handbook of Frogs and Toads of the United States and Canada. 3rd ed. 1949. Reprint. Cornell Univ. Pr., 1995.