10 Best Pet Amphibians The best pet amphibians vary from person to person and include species ranging from frogs to salamanders to the axolotl. With amphibians, you’ll have a pet that is fascinating to observe and fun to watch. But they also have certain care requirements that you should bear in mind. Most of these […]
Best Pet Toads For Beginners The best pet toads are the ones that look the coolest, are hardy, and don’t need a massive setup. Below are the top 7 toads that we think make great pets, if you’re into that sort of thing. They are each categorized by beginner, intermediate, or expert levels. Toads have […]
Is A Toad’s Diet The Same As A Frog’s Diet? Both frogs and toads have similar feeding habits. In fact, toads are frogs. They are both carnivorous which means that they will eat meat. They eat insects that are readily available in the region of the world they live in. Aquatic frogs eat brine shrimp […]
How To Keep Frogs Out Of Your Pool From a frog’s point of view, your pool might look like paradise, especially if it attracts a lot of bugs and insects. From a pool owner’s point of view, having these little guests might be problematic, particularly when dealing with dead frogs. In general, whatever works to […]
Difference Between Frogs And Toads Are frogs and toads the same? Well, “Anura” -literally meaning without tail in Ancient Greek. It’s an order of amphibians (about 5000 species known to science so far) which are usually referred to as “frogs”, to which both frogs and toads belong. Therefore, all frogs and toads fall under the […]
Top 10 Best Pet Frogs The Best Pet Frogs are known for their croaking sounds, jumping abilities, and bulging eyes. While pet frogs aren’t an interactive pet, they make great display pets and are very forgiving as far as care goes. Frogs have been around for quite a long time: the oldest fossil “proto-frog” dates from […]
Do Snakes Have Teeth? There are over 3000 species of snake; not all have the same anatomy and teeth is one example of this. However, most snakes have teeth! Even if most snakes do have teeth, not all snakes will have fangs. There’s a difference. Fangs are the long, pointed teeth. In mammals, fangs are […]
Dead Lizard? Yes, several lizards can play dead! Death-feigning (also known as thanatosis -from the Greek noun θανάτωσις, meaning “putting to death”; and Thanatos, meaning catalepsy, or tonic immobility) is a state of immobility assumed in response to external stimuli. It can be for various reasons, such as a prey evading a predator, a predator […]
VENOMOUS SNAKES LAWS Keeping venomous snakes is regulated for 3 key reasons, but as with most laws the main reason is safety and general public health. Ecosystem preservation is also a concern that laws regulating the tenure and ownership of venomous snakes normally takes into consideration, since when these snakes are released in the wild, […]
Snake Eyes & Retained Eye Caps Snake eye caps are a transparent scale (actually part of the skin) and can have a number of potential issues. Snakes evolved from lizards but have dramatically different eyes. These differences are cited widely as compelling evidence that snakes had fossorial and nocturnal ancestors. [1] In fact, most scientists […]
