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Frogs as Pets
In Australia, some kinds of frogs can be kept as pets but you need a license from the government in order to do so.
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Find out about wildlife licences in Australia, and how to care for frogs: In Australia, the Amphibian Research Centre (ARC) can supply pet frogs and tadpoles they have bred; also enclosures, food, information, materials, and other resources needed by those wanting to keep pet frogs. Read about and contact the ARC here |
Go here to read about the care and maintenance
of Australian frogs
http://www.reefandriver.com.au/frogs.htm
In many places you can no longer take tadpoles from the wild to keep in a tank. At places like the ARC, you can get tadpoles that have been bred in captivity.
Go here to read about how to successfully keep tadpoles
http://www.frogs.org.au/vfg/features/tadpoles.html
In Australia, tropical fruit is grown in the northern parts of the country and shipped to the southern states. Sometimes a supermarket or fruit shop will open a box of tropical fruit and find a tiny frog that has 'hitched' a ride south. These frogs are nicknamed 'Banana box frogs' because they are most often found amongst the bananas. They cannot be released into the wild: they may not survive in a colder habitat than they are used to; they may have a disease that could infect local frogs in their new habitat; or they could survive so successfully that they take over from the local frogs. Organisations like the ARC collect these frogs, quarantine them in the 'Lost Frogs Home' in case they do have a disease, and then people can adopt them as pets. Find out about them here: http://frogs.org.au/vfg/features/lostfrogs.html
| Best of all - make your garden frog-friendly so you can have local frogs, but let them live in the wild! Once you have set up the frog habitat, the local frogs will find it before too long. These sites will give you ideas of how to do it. Note that those with pdf at the end of them are slower to open and have lots of pages. http://www.abc.net.au/gardening/stories/s728126.htm http://www.zoo.org.au/education/factsheets/amp-frog_gardening.pdf http://www.epa.sa.gov.au/pdfs/frog_ponds.pdf |
Responsible
pet ownership
Frogs kept as pets depend on their owners for food, protection
and shelter. Before becoming a pet owner think carefully about
all the things you will have to do to care for your pet
responsibly.
Acknowledge this source in your bibliography like
this:
Frogs (2002). [Online], Available:
www.kidcyber.com.au
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