COMPARISON/CONTRAST ESSAY

Comparison/Contrast Essay

Comparison/Contrast Essay

Most of the people find it difficult to differentiate a frog from a toad. They normally mix them up. Although they seem so similar in appearance, they certainly have numerous dissimilarities too.

Frogs are found in many different shapes, sizes, colors, and textures. Frogs have smooth, wet skin. They live most of the time in or near water. They have different eye colors including brown, silver, green, gold and red along with different shapes and sizes of pupil. Some of the frogs have sticky padding on their feet while others have webbed feet. It is obvious that not even all the frogs have same qualities. Both the frog and the toad are amphibians that live in both land and water. The word amphibian comes from the Greek words amphi and bios, which mean "double life". They both have long life spans of thirty to forty years. The similarities between the two are many, right from the way their eggs look and hatch to the time taken for a tadpole to become a frog or a toad. Common frogs are a light brownish green color, which helps them to stay camouflaged at the bottom of a muddy pond, or in a pile of damp leaves. Toads that live in temperate regions are usually brown and olive in color, while those in the tropics are brighter in color.

Frogs and toads have several similarities which include the look and structure but there are certain differences also. Both toads and frogs have two lives, the aquatic larval stage called tadpole and the semi-aquatic or terrestrial adult stage. So both of them are amphibians and belong to class vertebrates. Both of them reproduce in a water body. Both frogs and toads have skin gland with a bad flavor but the secretions are stronger ...