Tree Frogs

**Sweatshirts are 6" larger in chest size than the t-shirts** Red-Eyed Tree Frogs live in the rain forests of Central America.  Asleep during the day, they are well camouflaged.  At night they come out to mate and hunt for insects.  These frogs are truly captivating.     It is fun to listen to frog calls and to try imagine what it is like to be an amphibian. What kind of insects would you eat? How would you catch them? Some hibernate, and some estivate. Frogs are threatened by pesticides, the decrease in insects, the chytrid fungus, pollution, the decrease in wetlands, and the dramatic loss of rainforests. Toxics poison frogs and salamanders, which partly breathe thru their skin. Rainforests are cut down for cattle ranching, lumber, soybean plantations, and gold mines. Finding mudpuppies ( a type of salamander) with large feathery gills in an alpine lake excited me. It was neat to learn that one salamander, the axolotl, stays in its juvenile form, spending its whole life under water.