The Orlando Science Center unveils a new touring exhibit today, Frogs. This large, interactive exhibit will feature over eighty live toads and frogs representing twenty species from around the world. They are displayed in habitats painstakingly recreated to match their own natural habitats.
The exhibit feature eight distinct areas, each devoted to different categories of frogs. Here, you’ll find:

• Terrestrial frogs—they live on land
• Burrowing frogs—they like to spend at least part of their time underground
• Frogs that live in trees—also called arboreal
• Frogs that only come out at night--nocturnal
• Frogs from Asia
• Frogs from Australia
• Frogs that spend most of their time in the water--aquatic
• Exotic and colorful Frogs from South America

The interactive aspect of this exhibit will delight all ages. Visitors can learn firsthand about frog diets and body parts, how they move, and the noises they make.

It’s lots of fun,but it's also educational. As the OSC Web site points out, frogs “indicator species.” This means that they define a trait or characteristic of their environment. When something is not right or out of balance in a particular environment, indicator species will reflect this problem with their own health and well-being. You can tell when something is wrong in an environment by checking the frogs that live there. Frogs, and amphibians in general, are declining in numbers throughout the world. This means something is wrong in their environments—and if something is wrong in their environments, it’s wrong in our environments as well. By studying frogs, scientists are hoping to find out what is wrong with the environments we all live in.

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