TADPOLE LIFE CYCLE

MATING

• Consists of amplexus between a male and female frog
• Can last for several days
• Usually happens in water
• Occasionally happens on land

EGG

• Multiple eggs are laid
• Eggs that die turn white or opaque
• Life starts as the central yolk splits in two-four-eight etc.
• Eggs hatch in 6-21days
• Mostly found in calm or static waters

TADPOLE

• Shortly after hatching, tadpoles feed on remaining yolk
• They are really fragile at this point
• They stick themselves to floating grasses using it's mouth or belly area
• 7-10 days after hatching, it will swim around and eat algae

TADPOLE

• After 4 weeks gills start being grown over by skin, causing them to disappear
• They get teeth

YOUNG FROG/FROGLET

• By 12 weeks, the tadpole has only a teeny tail stub and looks like a miniature version of the adult frog
• Soon it leaves to live on land

FROG

• Between 12 to 16 weeks the frog has completed the full growth cycle
• Now these frogs will start the process again; mating.