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The Runaway Princess | Frogs and Princes
Cool Froggy Facts | All-Star Frogs | Frog Songs
All-Star Frogs
| Biggest Frog |  | The Goliath Frog measures up to 13" (body only, not leg length) and can weigh more than 7 pounds. |
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| Smallest Frog | | The Gold Frog measures 3/8 of an inch. A recently discovered Cuban frog, scientific name Eleutherodactylus iberia, is about the same length. Poison frogs come in at a close second in this contest, since many measure less than half an inch. |
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| Best Jumper | | A South African frog named Santijie once jumped 33 feet, 5.5 inches in a frog jumping contest. However, some sources say Santjie's astonishing feat in 1989 was actually a triple jump. At the famous Calaveras County frog jumping contest in California three years earlier, a frog named Rosie the Ribeter jumped 21 feet, 5-3/4 inches in a single leap. (The contest is inspired by a story Mark Twain wrote about a guy in gold rush days who bets on a frog jump!) |
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| Deadliest Frog | | Poison frogs win with their venomous skin secretions! The Golden Poison Frog is said to contain enough poison to kill 8 people. Natives used to tip their hunting arrows with frog poison. The moral of the story is: if you see a tiny, brightly colored frog in a rainforest, don't lick it! (Toads also secrete poisons on their skin, so watch out for them, too.) |
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| Fastest Tongue | | Okay, nobody seems to have measured this in contest terms. But a frog can grab an insect, even a fast flying one, in about half a second. (The mere extension of the tongue takes less than a tenth of a second.) |
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| Best Frog Fact | | Yes, you've heard of a hive of bees, a gaggle of geese, and a pod of whales, but a group of frogs is actually called an army of frogs! (Truly, I found this out after I wrote about Gorba's frog army in The Runaway Princess.) |
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