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Common Frog (Rana temporaria)
Around 30 frogs visit the pond at work each year to spawn, if you croak at them they will come to the edge of the pond so you can get some good shots! The common frog can breathe through its skin. This enables it to hibernate for several months beneath piles of mud and decaying leaves underwater.
"Rana temporaria" is found throughout much of Europe as far north as well north of the Arctic Circle in Scandinavia and as far east as the Urals, except for most of Iberia, southern Italy, and the southern Balkans. The farthest west it can be found is Ireland, where it has long been thought erroneously to be an entirely introduced species.
Similar species: Frogs
By Bridget Charity Rendall
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Uploaded Oct 9, 2012. Captured Feb 24, 2011 12:28 in Barton Ln, Exeter, Devon EX2, UK.
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