Talk:Wood frog

How Wood Frogs and other frogs respire

Gas exchange between the air and bloodstream occurs in three locations in the frog: 1) the skin, 2) the lining of the mouth and 3) the lungs.

In order to ventilate the frog uses its throat to pump air into the lungs. Breathing occurs in four steps:

1. The throat moves down drawing air into the mouth through the nostrils.
2. The nostrils close and the throat moves up, forcing air into the lungs.
3. The throat moves down drawing air back out of the lungs.
4. The nostrils open and the throat moves up, forcing air out of the frog.

Larva/larvae?

I think the stage between the eggs and frog is called tadpole, not larva. Larva applies to the stage of insect before it is in the adult stage.

Bluerocketpower 18:57, 26 July 2007 (UTC)

Larva is the generic term relating to a stage in the development of several kinds of animal. Tadpole is the common term for the larva of a frog (or other amphibian). How about editing this to "...larva (or tadpole) ..."? Jim Whitaker 22:50, 11 November 2007 (UTC)

Cleanup

Can some please cleanup the first section? It reads horribly! 71.107.133.124 01:17, 4 August 2007 (UTC)

"...only frogs found north of the Arctic Circle"?

This is certainly untrue, as Common Frogs can be found throughout Scandinavia, up until the northern coasts of Norway – as you can see from this range map]. I myself live in Rovaniemi, Finland, less than 10 km (6 mi) south from the Arctic Circle, and I can assure you frogs can be found here aplenty: I've once counted 134 frogs in a single pond, for example. If you count all anurans as frogs, Common Toads too can be found north of the Arctic Circle (range map), though at least in Finland this is quite uncommon (there are records from Kittilä and Saariselkä); I've seen one here only once (this was at about 66°29′16″ N 25°58′11″ E or just south of the Arctic Cirle). I also find naming this as one of the smaller species in the True frog article a bit odd, as 35–76 mm is hardly unusually small in the Ranidae family. --Anshelm '77 19:16, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

"Lazarus Frog"?

I think I have heard this frog called the "lazarus frog" on the Discovery Channel, but I can't find any print/web sources that also use this name. Has anyone heard this name used to describe this frog? --Beefyt 01:53, 12 November 2007 (UTC)

freeze solid

no one put how this amphibian can freeze solid or how they do it. they didn't even mention that scientist are studying on it to see if they enable humans to do this. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.67.72.100 (talk) 00:19, 5 January 2010 (UTC)

Their bodies produce vast amounts of glucose to preserve brain and body function even after there is zero electrical brain and cardio-vascular acitivity. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.182.100.61 (talk) 20:25, 17 May 2012 (UTC)

"... affect the gene flow and genetic variation of the following generations"

I feel like this sentence about the importance of the success of the offspring is unnecessary information that applies to every species and doesn't need to be added to the article. Qazwsx1515 (talk) 20:23, 20 September 2022 (UTC)

Any enemy or ally?

It does not have any information regarding enemies or relationships with the other species.Darreciel (talk) 20:37, 22 September 2022 (UTC)

<LoganathanAnisha>Wiki22Sept

I think there could be a section added regarding the taxonomy/evolutionary origins of this frog. From the NCBI taxonomy database: Taxonomy ID: 45438 (for references in articles please use NCBI:txid45438)

Anisha Loganathan 22 September 2022 — Preceding undated comment added 18:35, 21 September 2022 (UTC)

"Therefore, the new research are make from the laboratory which related to making tissue glucose concentrations in captive wood frogs frozen in the laboratory to -2.5 degrees Celsius."

This sentence in the "Cold Tolerance" section seems clunky to me, but I am not qualified in frogology and would prefer that someone else clean it up. BingoReefer42 (talk) 05:15, 19 January 2024 (UTC)

Removed that sentence as it did not contribute to the passage (and was borderline unintelligible), and fixed temperature conversions. --Elmidae (talk · contribs) 08:32, 19 January 2024 (UTC)

(edit conflict) I was about to remove this sentence myself and you beat me to it! Upon further research, I think it's referring to this study, where wood frogs were rapidly cooled to -2.5 C, and those injected with glucose suffered less injury. Though it's 1992, not exactly new, so... not sure what's up with that. It is an interesting study, so if any frogoligist would like to include it in some intelligible fashion, that might be a good improvement to make. twotwos (talk) 08:49, 19 January 2024 (UTC)