Show FR05I TADPOLE TO FROG A frog meets with remarkable changes during his natural life He begins as an I egg and hatches out as a fishthat is a tadpole or polliwog at first his gills breathing water alone In his early days however the tadpole soon loses the outside out-side part of his gills and breathes air so that he has to come to the surface of the water overy few minutes like a porpoise to get a fresh gulp of breath During the first part of his career he I swims by sculling with his long tail After a while his legs begin to grow out his tail becomes shorter and shorter and when he is a complete frog he has no tail at all but swims by kicking When half frog and half tadpole he still has a good deal of tail and in addition big hind legs and mere sprouts of fore legs so that he is a very funny looking I fellow Again the tadpole eats water plants but when he becomes a frog he feeds on animal life Tadpoles eat the green moss or scum thatwe see SD often on logs and plants in a stagnant pool and they show a good appetite for soft decaying water growths The fouler the pool the happier the tadpoles As they are numerous i numer-ous and tihUt devour Xaltr1tt amount of matter that would make it very un healthful to live near a stagnant pool they are really useful creatures In captivity they will generally eat meat whether good or bad as well as bread and bran dough and as a special relish will sometimes lunch on one an others tails The common frog gets his final shape in the first season but the bullfrog goes under the mud for the winter while still a tadpole and it takes at least another summer and sometimes more before he has a full right to be called a frog He is some 4 years from the egg when in full growth and does not become a bullfrog bull-frog until ten years moreBoston Herald Her-ald |