Calling frogs will quickly become silent when they see an intruder or even a moving shadow but the closer an object is, the less well it is seen.
She had taken to calling them horny frogs.
She does not call her pupils dead frogs when they fail to execute a particular move, nor does she envelop them in bearhugs when they do.
However, there are a score of other families with members also called frogs or toads, and they all have the same general body plan, distinctly froglike, or toadlike.
Trolleybus wire switches (called frogs in the UK) are used where a trolleybus line branches into two or where two lines join.
The Sakkra, often called "white frogs" by humans, have been completely exterminated by the Human Empire after their invasion of the human Shedar system.
They screamed abuse at the vodyanoi, calling them frogs and toads.
Volunteers across the United States collect data on their local amphibian populations by choosing and periodically monitoring a wetland site for calling frogs and toads.
Little tadpoles don't just grow into big tadpoles and call themselves frogs, the way little children grow into big children and call themselves adults.
It includes the species commonly called ditch frogs or white-lipped frogs.