What is Mountain Yellow-Legged Frog

Mountain Yellow-Legged Frog


While there are only 150 to 200 individual mountain yellow-legged frogs living in the wild, San Diego Zoo Global is doing a lot to help! In 2009, we successfully raised 61 mountain yellow-legged frogs.

For tadpoles, the main threats are predator fish like brown trout, golden trout, brook char, and rainbow trout. Adult frogs are hunted by two-striped garter snakes, western terrestrial garter snakes, Brewer's blackbirds, Clark's nutcrackers, raccoons, and coyotes.

If they can avoid predators, these frogs can live up to 14 years!



Area: 
 Southern California

Habitat:
  Southern Sierra Nevada Mountains: lakes, ponds, meadow streams, isolated pools, sunny riverbanks; In mountains of Southern California, rocky streams in narrow canyons and in the chaparral belt.

Food:  
Beetles, ants, bees, wasps, flies, and dragonflies

Size:  
1 1/2 to 3 1/2 inches long

Babies:  
Tadpoles hatched from eggs laid in shallow water.













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