The Red-Eyed Tree Frog is a small animal, about
the size of the palm of your hand. It has green pigmented skin and
light red eyes. It has sticky orange feet that help it stay
on the trees. The tree frog spends most of it’s time in the lower canopy
in the Central American rain forests. It eats most insects and bugs.
The color of the frog is produced in one of two ways; one in which the
pigments are between the top two layers of skin and, two, from light that
is reflected from specialized cells within the dermis layers of skin.
The Red-Eyed Tree Frog usually stays in the
canopy except when it visits the ground to breed. It lays its eggs
on the leaves of the epiphytes that grow overhanging small pools.
Tiny animals such as the single-celled parasites live on the frogs.