Question

How does burrowing in the mud help frogs to maintain homeostasis?

Answer 1

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✔✔ When out of the water, frogs skin must stay moist to be able to breath.

✔✔ The frogs skin has glands called cuantenous glands on it which secrete mucus to assist in retaining moistness.

✔✔ When underwater, frogs can absorb oxygen from the water.

✔✔ Frogs can exchange gases from breathing through their lungs.

✔✔ Aquatic frogs such as the leopard frog(Rana pipiens) and American bullfrog (Rana catesbeiana) typically hibernate underwater.

✔✔ A common misconception is that they spend the winter the way aquatic turtles do, dug into the mud at the bottom of a pond or stream.

✔✔ In fact, hibernating frogs would suffocate if they dug into the mud for an extended period of time.

✔✔ A hibernating turtle's metabolism slows down so drastically that it can get by on the mud's meager oxygen supply.

✔✔ Hibernating aquatic frogs, however, must be near oxygen-rich water and spend a good portion of the winter just lying on top of the mud or only partially buried.

✔✔ They may even slowly swim around from time to time.

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