On the afternoon of August 18, 2023, sixteen intrepid frogs and their trainers leapt at the chance to take part in the annual Frog and Toad Jumping Contest held at the Blueberry Festival in the ...

But what they didn’t like was the news that the Blueberry Festival, and therefore the Frog and Toad Jumping Contest, was cancelled due to weather. The […] Sign in or Subscribe See Offers.

A Cuban tree frog pokes its head out of a fountain in Kelly Cockerham's Tampa yard. “I saw him and was like, ‘Dude, you can stay. You are so cute,’” Cockerham said.

Frogs are famed for their fantastic jumping skills, but not all frogs hop. Waxy monkey tree frogs ( Phyllomedusa sauvagii ) walk along branches, gripping them like monkeys do.

A frog is taken to the starting line during the annual frog jump at the Lake County Fair in Crown Point on Saturday, August 13, 2022. (Michael Gard / Post-Tribune) Rules for the contest said the ...

The European tree frog population 'exploded' after a conservation project in Switzerland This frog likes to jump from shrubs to trees, Dr Moor explains, and is one of the most mobile species ...

Over 20 years the regional population of the European tree frog quadrupled in one area. It could only be found at 16 sites in Reusstal in 1999 but by 2019 the species was living in 77 places.