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Interesting Facts:
- The red-eyed tree frog was discovered in Darién, Panama in the year 1862 by Edward D. Cope.
- The scientific name for the red-eyed tree frog comes from the Greek words kallos, meaning beautiful, and dryas meaning tree/wood nymph.
- The red-eyed tree frog can jump up to 20 times its own body length.
- The skin secretions of the red-eyed tree frog have been found to destroy the HIV (the virus that causes AIDS), without harming healthy T-cells.
- Frogs are good bio indicators (an organism able to show whether an environment is healthy or unhealthy) because of their highly permeable skin.
- The earliest known frog appeared during the late Jurassic Period, about 190 million years ago.
- Red-eyed tree frogs have vertical pupils which help it to see at night and respond quickly to changes in light.
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