Glass frog: Built to Survive

Question 1 · multiple choice

A camera trap is being set for a Glass frog. Which habitat description gives it the best chance of success?

marshes, riverbanks, flooded grasslands, and lakesides grasslands, farmland, scrub, and wetlands near palms or thorny trees humid forest vegetation beside tropical streams rocky shores and shallow seabeds

Question 2 · multiple choice

A Glass frog follows its usual feeding pattern. Which food combination should it seek?

ants and termites gathered with a long sticky tongue ants, termites, and other small invertebrates mostly small mammals located by sound small insects and other arthropods

Question 3 · multiple choice

When should a documentary crew expect the most natural activity from a Glass frog?

mostly active at night forages by day or night depending on light and prey active by day usually active by day

Question 4 · multiple choice

Which set of movements belongs to a Glass frog?

flies through water with flipper-like wings and toboggans over ice climbs and leaps among leaves over water climbs slowly with gripping feet and a coiling tail swims slowly using pectoral, dorsal, and anal fins for fine control

Question 5 · multiple choice

Which body feature gives a Glass frog a practical survival advantage?

nostrils near the bill tip detect prey by smell and touch a prehensile tail anchors the body while camouflage hides it translucent belly skin makes some internal organs visible mantle tissues house algae that photosynthesise and share nutrients

Question 6 · multiple choice

Which family-life detail is accurate for a Glass frog?

females carry eggs beneath the abdomen until larvae hatch gives birth to live young that ride on the mother’s back cubs are born in the winter den and nurse before spring emergence eggs are laid on leaves above water and tadpoles drop into the stream

Question 7 · multiple choice

Which social clue belongs to a Glass frog?

males call from leaves and may guard egg clutches mostly solitary, communicating over distance with scent and bellows groups may herd fish into shallows before scooping them adults may gather at good basking and nesting sites

Question 8 · multiple choice

Which food-web connection correctly involves a Glass frog?

abandoned burrows become shelters for many other animals transfers energy from flying insects to stream food webs turns soil and regulates ant and termite colonies controls rodent populations around farms and grasslands

Question 9 · multiple choice

A Glass frog cannot simply disappear. Which combination helps it avoid or survive danger?

dives into water and gives alarm barks places nests over water or thorny branches to reduce access by predators green camouflage and stillness hide it on leaves clings strongly and can regrow lost arms if enough central tissue remains

Question 10 · true false

True or False: A glass frog some males kick intruders during territorial fights.

True False