2006-09-03 12:29:50 · 13 answers · asked by JJ 2 in Pets ➔ Reptiles
The frog is an amphibian, the horned toad is a reptile
2006-09-03 12:31:53 · answer #1 · answered by Who am I? 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Horned Toad Frog
2016-10-14 12:06:38 · answer #2 · answered by meharg 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Not sure about a frog but the toad is not really a toad - it got 4 legs and runs / or walks it doesn't jump like a frog - I used to play with them when I was a kid - so much fun
2006-09-03 12:37:05 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Horned Frogs
PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS:
The horned frogs of the genus Ceratophrys, in some forms, are beautifully adomed and highly aggressive creatures. Some grow to a length of eight inches and have an immense body bulk. All of the horned frogs have enormous mouths and are highly predatory, the food of some consisting almost solely of other frogs. Large specimens will attack anything which threatens them. They can inflict painful bites, holding on with bulldog tenacity. Even the tadpoles of the horned frogs are highly carnivorous.
Some species of horned frogs are small, but several grow to huge size and have beauti- fully blended coloring of reds, tans, browns, greens, and blacks. On the jungle floor, among leaves and debris, they can hardly be seen. They move about little, preferring to lie in ambush for the unwary snakes, lizards, mice, and other vertebrates which come within range of their powerful jaws.
The "horn" of the horned frogs is a curious triangular prolongation of the edge of the upper eyelid. It is not hard or sharp, as it is only a flap of skin, but perhaps it makes the wide head appear even wider and therefore less acceptable to the forest creatures that would normally dine on these frogs.
source http://www.honoluluzoo.org/horned_frogs.htm
you can see a pic here..
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Horned Lizards protect themselves in a variety of ways. Their body is spikey and flat, so when started they usually will flatten out and sit really still so as to hopefully not be seen. If this doesnt work, they have also been known to inflate their body and hiss a lot, and in extreme cases, they can even squirt blood from their eyeballs to attack predators! In the 100th Anniversary Edition of Ripley's Believe It or Not!, Reptiles Lizards and Prehistoric Beasts, published in 1994, it states that Horned Lizards can squirt blood from their eye as far as 5 feet!
Source : http://allaboutfrogs.org/weird/strange/hrnytoad.html
and you can see a picture here of this one as well
2006-09-03 12:37:55 · answer #4 · answered by away right now 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
one is a frog the other is a toad------------the toad can live out of water while the frog needs water although he can go on land.Love it when I see a toad in my yard for know it'll eat very many mosquitoes.Frogs spend most of their lives very near water while the toad ventures much farther, frogs have wet slimy feel to their skin but toads are dry and bumpy-the main difference.
2006-09-03 12:38:00 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
The horned frog & the horned lizard are the same thing
2015-09-19 15:25:29 · answer #6 · answered by Ellie 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The frog is a frog, and the toad is a lizard found in SW US in the desert.
2006-09-05 04:21:27 · answer #7 · answered by bobby h 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No difference, just depends on what they are called in your neck of the woods. The proper name is Texas horned lizard.
2006-09-03 12:36:52 · answer #8 · answered by eferrell01 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the horned frog is a amphibian and the horned lizzard is a reptile
2006-09-03 12:38:24 · answer #9 · answered by ronnie6266 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
a hored toad isn't a toad at all..it isn't even an amphibian...it is a reptile...found in the desrt southwest.
2006-09-03 12:32:27 · answer #10 · answered by Skipper1974 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋