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102 relations: Abdomen, Agkistrodon contortrix, Agkistrodon piscivorus, Algae, Ambush predator, American alligator, Amphibian, Amplexus, Anatomical terms of location, Animal, Arizona, Asphyxia, Atelopus, Ballistics, Belted kingfisher, Binomial nomenclature, Blasius Merrem, Bufo, California, California red-legged frog, Cannibalism, Cape Cod, Cattle, Charles Mitchill Bogert, Chordate, Chytridiomycosis, Colorado, Colostethus, Dissection, Dominance (ecology), Dytiscus, Elastic energy, Electromyography, Eleutherodactylus, Endotherm, External fertilization, Fish, Florida, François Marie Daudin, Frog, Frog legs, Game (hunting), Gearing ratio, George Albert Boulenger, George Shaw, Georges Cuvier, Gigging, Gill, Grammatical gender, Gular skin, ..., Harem (zoology), Hawaii, Heron, Hyla, Invasive species, Iris (anatomy), John Eatton Le Conte, Kansas, Lek mating, List of U.S. state amphibians, Lithobates, Lithobates clamitans, Mark Catesby, Mechanical efficiency, Metamorphosis, Midwestern United States, Minnesota, Missouri, Nantucket, Nebraska, Nevada, North American river otter, Northern leopard frog, Northern water snake, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pharynx, Planorbis, Plantaris muscle, Polygyny, Protozoa, Pupil, Refraction, Richard Harlan, Roger Conant (herpetologist), Salamander, Sarcomere, Sexual dimorphism, Sexual selection, Sonomicrometry, South Dakota, Southern United States, Specific name (zoology), Tendon, True frog, Tympanum (anatomy), Utah, Venom, Vulnerable species, Washington (state), Wood frog. Expand index (52 more) »
Abdomen
The abdomen (less formally called the belly, stomach, tummy or midriff) constitutes the part of the body between the thorax (chest) and pelvis, in humans and in other vertebrates.
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Agkistrodon contortrix
Agkistrodon contortrix is a species of venomous snake endemic to Eastern North America, a member of the subfamily Crotalinae (pit vipers).
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Agkistrodon piscivorus
Agkistrodon piscivorus is a venomous snake, a species of pit viper, found in the southeastern United States.
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Algae
Algae (singular alga) is an informal term for a large, diverse group of photosynthetic organisms that are not necessarily closely related, and is thus polyphyletic.
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Ambush predator
Ambush predators or sit-and-wait predators are carnivorous animals or other organisms, such as some nematophagous fungi and carnivorous plants, that capture or trap prey by stealth or by strategy (typically not conscious strategy), rather than by speed or by strength.
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American alligator
The American alligator (Alligator mississippiensis), sometimes referred to colloquially as a gator or common alligator, is a large crocodilian reptile endemic to the southeastern United States.
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Amphibian
Amphibians are ectothermic, tetrapod vertebrates of the class Amphibia.
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Amplexus
Amplexus (Latin "embrace") is a type of mating behavior exhibited by some externally fertilizing species (chiefly amphibians and horseshoe crabs) in which a male grasps a female with his front legs as part of the mating process, and at the same time or with some time delay, he fertilizes the female eggs as they are released from the body.
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Anatomical terms of location
Standard anatomical terms of location deal unambiguously with the anatomy of animals, including humans.
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Animal
Animals are multicellular eukaryotic organisms that form the biological kingdom Animalia.
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Arizona
Arizona (Hoozdo Hahoodzo; Alĭ ṣonak) is a U.S. state in the southwestern region of the United States.
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Asphyxia
Asphyxia or asphyxiation is a condition of severely deficient supply of oxygen to the body that arises from abnormal breathing.
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Atelopus
Atelopus is a large genus of true toads, commonly known as harlequin toads or stubfoot toads, from Central and South America, ranging as far north as Costa Rica and as far south as Bolivia.
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Ballistics
Ballistics is the field of mechanics that deals with the launching, flight, behavior, and effects of projectiles, especially bullets, unguided bombs, rockets, or the like; the science or art of designing and accelerating projectiles so as to achieve a desired performance.
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Belted kingfisher
The belted kingfisher (Megaceryle alcyon) is a large, conspicuous water kingfisher, the only member of that group commonly found in the northern United States and Canada.
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Binomial nomenclature
Binomial nomenclature ("two-term naming system") also called nomenclature ("two-name naming system") or binary nomenclature, is a formal system of naming species of living things by giving each a name composed of two parts, both of which use Latin grammatical forms, although they can be based on words from other languages.
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Blasius Merrem
Blasius Merrem (4 February 1761 – 23 February 1824) was a German naturalist, zoologist, ornithologist, mathematician, and herpetologist.
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Bufo
Bufo is a large genus of about 150 species of true toads in the amphibian family Bufonidae.
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California
California is a state in the Pacific Region of the United States.
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California red-legged frog
The California red legged frog (Rana draytonii) is a species of frog that is now endemic to California.
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Cannibalism
Cannibalism is the act of one individual of a species consuming all or part of another individual of the same species as food.
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Cape Cod
Cape Cod is a geographic cape extending into the Atlantic Ocean from the southeastern corner of mainland Massachusetts, in the northeastern United States.
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Cattle
Cattle—colloquially cows—are the most common type of large domesticated ungulates.
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Charles Mitchill Bogert
Charles Mitchill Bogert (June 4, 1908 – April 10, 1992) was an American herpetologist, and curator of herpetology and researcher for the American Museum of Natural History.
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Chordate
A chordate is an animal belonging to the phylum Chordata; chordates possess a notochord, a hollow dorsal nerve cord, pharyngeal slits, an endostyle, and a post-anal tail, for at least some period of their life cycle.
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Chytridiomycosis
Chytridiomycosis is an infectious disease in amphibians, caused by the chytrid fungi Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis and Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans, a nonhyphal zoosporic fungus.
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Colorado
Colorado is a state of the United States encompassing most of the southern Rocky Mountains as well as the northeastern portion of the Colorado Plateau and the western edge of the Great Plains.
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Colostethus
Colostethus is a genus of poison dart frogs native to Central and South America, from Panama south to Colombia, Ecuador, and northern Peru.
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Dissection
Dissection (from Latin dissecare "to cut to pieces"; also called anatomization) is the dismembering of the body of a deceased animal or plant to study its anatomical structure.
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Dominance (ecology)
Ecological dominance is the degree to which a taxon is more numerous than its competitors in an ecological community, or makes up more of the biomass.
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Dytiscus
Dytiscus ("little diver" based on Greek δυτικός, "able to dive" and the diminutive suffix -ίσκος) is a Holarctic genus of predaceous diving beetles that usually live in wetlands and ponds.
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Elastic energy
Elastic energy is the potential mechanical energy stored in the configuration of a material or physical system as work is performed to distort its volume or shape.
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Electromyography
Electromyography (EMG) is an electrodiagnostic medicine technique for evaluating and recording the electrical activity produced by skeletal muscles.
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Eleutherodactylus
Eleutherodactylus is a genus of frogs in the family Eleutherodactylidae.
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Endotherm
An endotherm (from Greek ἔνδον endon "within" and θέρμη thermē "heat") is an organism that maintains its body at a metabolically favorable temperature, largely by the use of heat set free by its internal bodily functions instead of relying almost purely on ambient heat.
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External fertilization
External fertilization is a male organism’s sperm fertilizing a female organism’s egg outside of the female’s body.
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Fish
Fish are gill-bearing aquatic craniate animals that lack limbs with digits.
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Florida
Florida (Spanish for "land of flowers") is the southernmost contiguous state in the United States.
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François Marie Daudin
François Marie Daudin (29 August 1776 in Paris – 30 November 1803 in Paris) was a French zoologist.
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Frog
A frog is any member of a diverse and largely carnivorous group of short-bodied, tailless amphibians composing the order Anura (Ancient Greek ἀν-, without + οὐρά, tail).
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Frog legs
Frog legs are one of the better-known delicacies of French and Chinese cuisine.
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Game (hunting)
Game or quarry is any animal hunted for sport or for food.
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Gearing ratio
Gearing ratio refers to the fundamental analysis ratio of a company's level of long-term debt compared to its equity capital/capital employed.
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George Albert Boulenger
George Albert Boulenger (19 October 1858 – 23 November 1937) was a Belgian-British zoologist who described and gave scientific names to over 2,000 new animal species, chiefly fish, reptiles, and amphibians.
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George Shaw
George Kearsley Shaw (10 December 1751 – 22 July 1813) was an English botanist and zoologist.
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Georges Cuvier
Jean Léopold Nicolas Frédéric, Baron Cuvier (23 August 1769 – 13 May 1832), known as Georges Cuvier, was a French naturalist and zoologist, sometimes referred to as the "founding father of paleontology".
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Gigging
Gigging is the practice of hunting fish or small game with a gig or similar multi-pronged spear.
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Gill
A gill is a respiratory organ found in many aquatic organisms that extracts dissolved oxygen from water and excretes carbon dioxide.
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Grammatical gender
In linguistics, grammatical gender is a specific form of noun class system in which the division of noun classes forms an agreement system with another aspect of the language, such as adjectives, articles, pronouns, or verbs.
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Gular skin
Gular skin (throat skin), in ornithology, is an area of featherless skin on birds that joins the lower mandible of the beak (or bill) to the bird's neck.
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Harem (zoology)
A harem is an animal group consisting of one or two males, a number of females, and their offspring.
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Hawaii
Hawaii (Hawaii) is the 50th and most recent state to have joined the United States, having received statehood on August 21, 1959.
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Heron
The herons are the long-legged freshwater and coastal birds in the family Ardeidae, with 64 recognised species, some of which are referred to as egrets or bitterns rather than herons.
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Hyla
The genus Hyla is a member of the family of tree frogs (Hylidae).
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Invasive species
An invasive species is a species that is not native to a specific location (an introduced species), and that has a tendency to spread to a degree believed to cause damage to the environment, human economy or human health.
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Iris (anatomy)
In humans and most mammals and birds, the iris (plural: irides or irises) is a thin, circular structure in the eye, responsible for controlling the diameter and size of the pupil and thus the amount of light reaching the retina.
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John Eatton Le Conte
John Eatton Le Conte, Jr. (sometimes John Eatton LeConte or John Eaton Leconte) (February 22, 1784 – November 21, 1860) was an American naturalist.
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Kansas
Kansas is a U.S. state in the Midwestern United States.
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Lek mating
A lek, from the Swedish word for "play", is an aggregation of male animals gathered to engage in competitive displays, lekking, to entice visiting females which are surveying prospective partners for copulation.
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List of U.S. state amphibians
This is a list of official U.S. state amphibians.
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Lithobates
Lithobates is a subgenus or genus of true frogs, of the family Ranidae.
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Lithobates clamitans
The green frog (Lithobates clamitans or Rana clamitans) is a species of frog native to the eastern half of the United States and Canada.
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Mark Catesby
Mark Catesby (24 March 1683 – 23 December 1749) was an English naturalist.
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Mechanical efficiency
Mechanical efficiency measures the effectiveness of a machine in transforming the energy and power that is input to the device into an output force and movement.
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Metamorphosis
Metamorphosis is a biological process by which an animal physically develops after birth or hatching, involving a conspicuous and relatively abrupt change in the animal's body structure through cell growth and differentiation.
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Midwestern United States
The Midwestern United States, also referred to as the American Midwest, Middle West, or simply the Midwest, is one of four census regions of the United States Census Bureau (also known as "Region 2").
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Minnesota
Minnesota is a state in the Upper Midwest and northern regions of the United States.
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Missouri
Missouri is a state in the Midwestern United States.
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Nantucket
Nantucket is an island about by ferry south from Cape Cod, in the U.S. state of Massachusetts.
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Nebraska
Nebraska is a state that lies in both the Great Plains and the Midwestern United States.
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Nevada
Nevada (see pronunciations) is a state in the Western, Mountain West, and Southwestern regions of the United States of America.
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North American river otter
The North American river otter (Lontra canadensis), also known as the northern river otter or the common otter, is a semiaquatic mammal endemic to the North American continent found in and along its waterways and coasts.
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Northern leopard frog
The northern leopard frog (Lithobates pipiensIntegrated Taxonomic Information System 2012. Available from: www.itis.gov/ or Rana pipiens) is a species of leopard frog from the true frog family, native to parts of Canada and the United States.
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Northern water snake
The northern water snake (Nerodia sipedon) is a species of large, nonvenomous, common snake in the family Colubridae.
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Ohio
Ohio is a Midwestern state in the Great Lakes region of the United States.
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Oklahoma
Oklahoma (Uukuhuúwa, Gahnawiyoˀgeh) is a state in the South Central region of the United States.
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Oregon
Oregon is a state in the Pacific Northwest region on the West Coast of the United States.
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Pharynx
The pharynx (plural: pharynges) is the part of the throat that is behind the mouth and nasal cavity and above the esophagus and the larynx, or the tubes going down to the stomach and the lungs.
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Planorbis
Planorbis is a genus of air-breathing freshwater snails, aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Planorbidae, the ram's horn snails, or planorbids.
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Plantaris muscle
The plantaris is one of the superficial muscles of the superficial posterior compartment of the leg, one of the fascial compartments of the leg.
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Polygyny
Polygyny (from Neoclassical Greek πολυγυνία from πολύ- poly- "many", and γυνή gyne "woman" or "wife") is the most common and accepted form of polygamy, entailing the marriage of a man with several women.
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Protozoa
Protozoa (also protozoan, plural protozoans) is an informal term for single-celled eukaryotes, either free-living or parasitic, which feed on organic matter such as other microorganisms or organic tissues and debris.
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Pupil
The pupil is a hole located in the center of the iris of the eye that allows light to strike the retina.
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Refraction
Refraction is the change in direction of wave propagation due to a change in its transmission medium.
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Richard Harlan
Richard Harlan (September 19, 1796 – September 30, 1843) was an American naturalist, zoologist, herpetologist, physicist, and paleontologist.
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Roger Conant (herpetologist)
Roger Conant (May 6, 1909 – December 19, 2003) was an American herpetologist, author, educator and conservationist.
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Salamander
Salamanders are a group of amphibians typically characterized by a lizard-like appearance, with slender bodies, blunt snouts, short limbs projecting at right angles to the body, and the presence of a tail in both larvae and adults.
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Sarcomere
A sarcomere (Greek sarx "flesh", meros "part") is the basic unit of striated muscle tissue.
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Sexual dimorphism
Sexual dimorphism is the condition where the two sexes of the same species exhibit different characteristics beyond the differences in their sexual organs.
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Sexual selection
Sexual selection is a mode of natural selection where members of one biological sex choose mates of the other sex to mate with (intersexual selection), and compete with members of the same sex for access to members of the opposite sex (intrasexual selection).
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Sonomicrometry
Sonomicrometry is a technique of measuring the distance between piezoelectric crystals based on the speed of acoustic signals through the medium they are embedded in.
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South Dakota
South Dakota is a U.S. state in the Midwestern region of the United States.
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Southern United States
The Southern United States, also known as the American South, Dixie, Dixieland, or simply the South, is a region of the United States of America.
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Specific name (zoology)
In zoological nomenclature, the specific name (also specific epithet or species epithet) is the second part (the second name) within the scientific name of a species (a binomen).
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Tendon
A tendon or sinew is a tough band of fibrous connective tissue that usually connects muscle to bone and is capable of withstanding tension.
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True frog
The true frogs, family Ranidae, have the widest distribution of any frog family.
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Tympanum (anatomy)
The tympanum is an external hearing structure in animals such as mammals, birds, some reptiles, some amphibians and some insects.
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Utah
Utah is a state in the western United States.
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Venom
Venomous Animals Venom is a form of toxin secreted by an animal for the purpose of causing harm to another.
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Vulnerable species
A vulnerable species is one which has been categorized by the International Union for Conservation of Nature as likely to become endangered unless the circumstances that are threatening its survival and reproduction improve.
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Washington (state)
Washington, officially the State of Washington, is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States.
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Wood frog
The wood frog (Lithobates sylvaticus or Rana sylvatica) has a broad distribution over North America, extending from the Boreal forest of Canada and Alaska to the southern Appalachians, with several notable disjunct populations including lowland eastern North Carolina.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_bullfrog
