Tadpoles have gills to breathe underwater and ... As temperatures fluctuate in the spring, the chorus frog can survive the freezing of its body fluids down to 17 deg. F. They eat ants, beetles ...

Its other common name derives from the dramatic, jagged crest that males develop along their backs during the spring breeding ... and insects on land, and tadpoles and mollusks in water.

Though egg laying takes place in spring, frog pairs in mountain ponds ... be 30 percent larger than those of lowland females, giving tadpoles a head start. Eggs and tadpoles of mountain frogs ...