The Book of Frogs

2. erweiterte Auflage Princeton 2025, geb., Großformat, 656 Seiten, With almost nine thousand known species, frogs display a stunning array of forms and behaviors. A single gram of the tox-in produced by the skin of the Golden Poison Frog can kill one hundred thousand people. Male Darwin’s Frogs carry their tadpoles in their vocal sacs for sixty days before coughing them out into the world. And the Wood Frogs of North America freeze every winter, reanimating in the spring. This book documents the diversity and magnificence of all these anurans and many more. Readers meet six hundreds of nature’s most fascinating frogs, with each entry including a distribution map, illustrations, species identification, natural history, and conservation status. Colour photos show the frogs at their actual size—from Papua New Guinea’s diminutive Paedophryne amauensis, smaller than a coin, to Cameroon’s colossal Goliath Frog, heavier than some dogs. Written by experts Mark O’Shea and Tim Halliday and containing updated information on one hundred species and nearly twenty new entries, this revised edition will facinate both veteran researchers and amateur herpetologists.