The Book of Frogs : A Life-Size Guide to Six Hundred Species from around the World, Second Edition

An up-to-date, beautifully illustrated, and beloved guide to six hundred of the world’s most fascinating frogs. With almost 9,000 known species, frogs display a stunning array of forms and behaviors.A single gram of the toxin produced by the skin of the Golden Poison Frog can kill 100,000 people.Male Darwin’s Frogs carry their tadpoles in their vocal sacs for sixty days before coughing them out into the world. And the Wood Frogs of North America freeze every winter, reanimating in the spring. The Book of Frogs commemorates the diversity and magnificence of all these anurans and many more.Readers meet six hundred of nature’s most fascinating frogs, with each entry including a distribution map, illustrations, species identification, natural history, and conservation status.Color photos show the frogs at their actual size-from Papua New Guinea’s diminutive Paedophryne amanuensis, smaller than a coin, to Cameroon’s colossal Goliath Frog, heavier than some dogs.Written by experts Mark O’She