The Alaskan Tree Frog
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The alaskan tree frog. Alaska has two species of frogs. Individual wood frogs range widely hundreds of meters among their breeding pools and neighboring freshwater swamps cool moist ravines and or upland habitats. They do not freeze totally solid but they do freeze mostly solid. The alaskan wood frog is one of the most widely distributed amphibians in north america especially in alaska the colder parts of canada and the contagious united states.
The columbia spotted frog rana luteiventris and the wood frog rana sylvatica. There is no animal. According to the alaska department of fish and game that state is home to two species of frogs. It is also found in the medicine bow national forest.
Wood frogs are forest dwelling organisms that breed primarily in ephemeral freshwater wetlands. Long distance migration plays an important role in their life history. It is the most widely distributed frog in alaska. The alaskan tree frog freezes solid in the winter stopping it s heart completely and then unthaws in the spring.
The alaskan tree frog freezes solid in winter including the stopping of his heart and when he thaws out in the spring he wakes up and hops away. When spring arrives the frog thaws and returns to normal going. During cold winters the alaskan wood frog becomes a frog shaped block of ice. Alaskan wood frog scientific classification.
Two thirds of their body water turns to ice. Each september the wood frogs of alaska do a very strange thing. The only species of toad in alaska is the western toad. Alaska also is inhabited by two introduced frog species the pacific tree frog also referenced as the pacific chorus frog and the red legged frog.