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Subject: frogs laying eggs
Category: Miscellaneous
Asked by: maurasmith-ga
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Posted: 01 Oct 2005 18:01 PDT
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Question ID: 575176
Why do frogs lay their eggs in water?
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Subject: Re: frogs laying eggs
From: raztaj-ga on 01 Oct 2005 19:57 PDT
 
From Wikipedia.com (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frogs#Life_cycle)

A female would wish to avoid arriving at a pond which did not have any
males in attendance... (the male frog) fertilizes them with a fluid
containing sperm. The eggs are about 2.0 to 2.8 millimetres in
diameter and are dark brown and are covered in an outer shell of
gelatinous transparent material which swells in contact with water.
The female frog lays her eggs in a shallow pond or creek, where they
will be sheltered from the current and from predators.
Subject: Re: frogs laying eggs
From: myoarin-ga on 02 Oct 2005 05:00 PDT
 
WHen the eggs hatch, the tadpoles (AKA pollywogs) are purely aquatic,
they must be born in water.
Subject: Re: frogs laying eggs
From: elids-ga on 02 Oct 2005 08:27 PDT
 
Ok this is silly and has nothing to do with the question at hand, but
one has to wonder.... although siring offspring is not on the minds of
most males there is no doubt as to the motivation for the male of most
species to have sex and reproduce. What is the motivation for male
animals like these frogs that simply deposit their sperm after the
eggs were laid? To do what they do the female is not needed, what
compels them to follow the females, as supposed to laying their sperm
willy nilly all over creation?
Subject: Re: frogs laying eggs
From: insolent-ga on 03 Oct 2005 16:55 PDT
 
Some species of frogs lay their eggs out of the water on a leaf
overlooking the water.  Then when the tadpoles hatch, they plop into
the water and swim away.

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