Red-Eyed Tree Frog

Red-eyed tree frogs live in tropical rainforests with clear wet and dry seasons in Central America and southern Mexico. Climate change will raise temperatures, lengthen drought infected dry seasons, and bring heavier rains, for wet seasons. These frogs need to develop traits in order to survive with climate changes. Red-eyed tree frogs will begin conserving water by concentrating their urine and storing water in their bladders. They will also add a mucus layer on top of their eggs letting oxygen flow to the embryos and preventing them from overheating in the water that they are laid in. Their skin will be color changing, helping them blend in with the green plants in wet seasons and the brown vegetation from the dry periods. Their diet may change toward moths if their other food sources do not survive, since moths are more likely to survive in drier conditions.