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| 1st April - The tadpoles are now free swimming and their mouths are open. To begin with, they eat plant material and take in oxygen from the water through their gills, visible on either side of their bodies. Their size slowly starts to increase. |
Frog Metamorphosis
Follow the development
of egg to tadpole to frog in these images.
Images are not all shown to the same scale
EGGS LAID 28th FEBRUARY
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| 1st April - The tadpoles are now free swimming and their mouths are open. To begin with, they eat plant material and take in oxygen from the water through their gills, visible on either side of their bodies. Their size slowly starts to increase. |
Day 5 |
Day 5 |
Day 9 |
Day 13 |
Day 19 |
Day 25 |
Day 32 |
Day 40 |
Day 47 |
Day 54 |
5th March |
5th March |
Day 63 |
Day 69 |
Day 77 |
Day 97 |
Day 105 |
Day 111 |
Day 121 |
