Green Tree Frog

 

Characteristics

Green tree frogs are small enough to fit in someone's hand. Their size does rang with their gender, females can be 6-7cm long and males can be the size 6-11cm long. Compared to other Australian frogs, they are giants. As a tadpole their colour is a light brown, but as they mature at about six weeks to full grown, their colour changes to a light green shade that also changes over time as they can live up to 16 years in captivity.

 

Behaviour

Green tree frogs are not aggressive and they will let you pick them up without hesitating. They are also not very territorial meaning that they won’t fight for space or for the females.

 

Diet

Green tree frogs are insectivores meaning that they feed on insects and small invertebrates like worms.

 

Predators

Although there are no major threats, dogs, domestic cats, birds and snakes are the main causes of the deaths of green tree frogs.

 

Habitat

Green tree frogs like to live in urban areas, woodlands, forests and wetlands. Green tree frogs like to live in suburban houses, in showers and down toilets.

 

Impacts

Climate change impacts green tree frogs because when it gets really dry they have to find a way to survive and reproduce. Green tree frogs are good at finding places to hide during this time like ponds and pool fences. When the cane toads were introduced there was a major decline in the green tree frogs' population. People would mistake green tree frog tadpoles for cane toad tadpoles.