A frog's life: 3 (Exploring with Too Woo)

This book is about frogs and their toad cousins and their fascinating amphibian lives. Frogs live all over the world even managing to withstand freezing their own bodies. Cold-blooded but astonishingly similar to animals biologically they perhaps offer a glimpse of a common ancestor.From an egg protected and nourished by frogspawn through its development first as the vegetarian fish like tadpole to becoming the carnivorous frog A frogs life is a journey of discovery into the lives and habits of one of natures most treasured and diverse creatures. Worshiped as a goddess by the Egyptians and for many cultures a symbol of good luck but for others a tasty treat.A staple of French cuisine an invaluable aid to scientists biologists Amazonian hunters and an early warning system of ecological problems. A frogs life explores the contribution of these amphibians with Evelyn Woods usual mix of fact and fun anatomical diagrams cartoons a quiz and colouring pages.