Feeding the Frogs at AMNH

The American Museum of Natural History's popular exhibit Frogs: A Chorus of Colors is open to visitors through January 3, 2010. There are more than 200 live frogs, from the tiny golden mantella frog to the enormous African bullfrog.

We followed Hazel Davies, AMNH's Manager of Living Exhibits, as she prepped and fed the frogs before visitors arrived. And we caught up with Dr. Christopher Raxworthy, the Museum's Associate Curator of Herpetology, to find out the role frogs play in our world.

Produced/Edited by James Sims. For more information visit http://www.amnh.org.

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[jsymonds3]

@JoshuaH688 I think it's also so they don't end up flying around the whole museum

[JoshuaH688]

It seems kinda cruel to breed flies that can't fly so that frogs can eat them easier... lol.

[typhowowl]

@NZartfuldando

i know!

[typhowowl]

frogs are my fav animal

[superphil92]

@NZartfuldando Yea I have 3 different Tanks with 3 different species of frogs, Pac man frog, African dwarf frogs, And fire bellied toads, wich are actualy frogs not toads

[NZartfuldando]

My favourite animal. How can you not like a good frog!

[kinder0schokolade]

They call this the AMERICAN Museum of Natural History.... why does everyone in this video have a BRITISH accent?

[mcplanetearth]

And while visiting the have a order of frog's legs at the museum's resturaunt

[sabotogeable]

fee fie foe fum

i smell the blood

of an englishman

[7410n0]

Manhattan, New York