can a frog survive in the desert?

Answer 1

There are a few species of toad that are adapted to survive in the desert.

Taking just an ordinary frog out of the pond in your backyard and dropping him in the desert will probably kill him, however, since his species is probably not well suited for a dry climate.

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Sonoran Desert toad

(Bufo alvarius)
Order: Salientia
Family: Bufonidae (true toads)
Other common names: Colorado River toad
Spanish name: sapo grande

...Range
Found from Central Arizona to southwestern New Mexico and Sinaloa, Mexico; historically entered southeastern California, though it has not been seen there since the 1970s.

Habitat
This toad is common in the Sonoran Desert. It occurs in a variety of habitats including creosote bush desertscrub, grasslands up into oak-pine woodlands, and thornscrub and tropical deciduous forest in Mexico....

Answer 2

Frogs and Weather
Desert Frogs

[image] The Catholic frog (Notaden bennetti) is a yellow or greenish Australian myobatrachid which gets to be about 4 cm (1.5 inches) long. It was named for the dark, crosslike pattern on its back, and it lives in dry regions. The way it copes with drought is to live underground, emerging from its burrow after a heavy rain.
(picture courtesy of The Somewhat Amusing World of Frogs page (site appears to be gone).)

Another desert dweller is the Flat-headed frog (Chiroleptes platycephalus) which is also an Australian myobatrachid. It, too, lives in burrows and is noted for its' ability to store enough water in its body to take on a ball-like shape. *bloat*

Another dry-region dweller, the Rheoba trachus Silus, swallows its eggs and broods them in its stomach since there aren't any ponds available!!! *YUM!*

Answer 3

every so often like once in 80 years ,it rains in the dessert ,and many ponds fill up ,almost instantly as if by magic these ponds are stocked with fish and frogs and other aquatic life ,whose spawn ,eggs or seeds have lain dormant for many years awaiting the rain ,and all quickly devellop breed and reproduce ,because these ponds quickly dry up.

so yes at rare times frogs live in the dessert
lizards are more dry dessert creatures
frogs like humidity

there are toads that can handle exstreme dry conditions ,but these things only live where there is food to be found

so if you look for where animals are

,first look if there is food for them .