Renowned herpetologists Mike Dorcas, Davidson College, and Whit Gibbons, a UGA ecology professor emeritus, have compiled a comprehensive, accessible and fun-to-read, guide of the more than
40 native and introduced species of frogs and toads in the Southeast in their book, Frogs and Toads of the Southeast.
Dorcas and Gibbons enumerate the distinguishing characteristics of frogs and toads, including how they are different from other amphibians and the differences between a frog and a toad.
Individual species accounts contain a physical description of the species plus information about distribution and habitat, behavior and activity, food and feeding, predators and defense, calls and vocalizations, reproduction and description of eggs and tadpoles, and conservation.
The book contains about 250 color photographs, 45 distribution maps, a clear description and photographs of each species in both tadpole and adult stages and chapters on identification, vocalizations, reproduction, global diversity and introduced species.
