Green Frog

The green Grenouille is a Amphibien (in the past batrachian) of Europe.

scientific Name: Rana esculenta
Description: Squat body, strongly round muzzle, horizontal pupil, two gland lines marked well on the back. The male has two external vocal bags. Palmations do not exceed half of the toes.

* Size: 4 to 12 cm

* Color: In general, the top of the body is of color sharp green to brown. The lower part is yellow in the male.

Distribution: everywhere in Europe until the Northern course and even in Asia, except south of the Spain of the South, Italy and Balkans.
Habitat: Water levels, marshes, slow ponds and rivers, but also the forests and meadow wet.
Food: Arthropod S, Insect S, small Crustacean S, larvae of Amphibians, towards.
Hibernation: during the 4 winter months, it envase in the content of the brook or the river and will remain motionless there having reduced its vital needs to the minimum.
Sexuality: The coupling and the laying proceed over one 15 days period between February and April, according to the advance of the vegetation and altitude.

* Laying: the female lays from 1.500 to 4.000 eggs.

Tadpoles: The tadpoles are born at the end of 2 to 3 weeks, according to the room temperature, and their development hard from two to three months until their metamorphosis. Sexual maturity is at 3 years. The green frog can live from 6 to 10 years.
Characteristic: It is the preferred species of the Gastronome S amateurs of Cuisses of frogs.
Hybridization: It is acted in fact of a hybrid species (Rana esculenta klepton) resulting from several European species, primarily Rana lessonae (frog of Lessona) and R. ridibunda (merry frog). The hybrid is seldom fertile, it generally seeks for the reproduction a partner of species R. lessonae (phenomenon of hybridogenèse).

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