The frogturduck is my unique hybrid that I made with a red
eyed tree frog, a painted turtle and a duck.
Frogturducks are good at surviving because they are good fliers,
swimmers and climbers.
Frogturducks
are omnivores which mean that they eat both plants and animals. They can live in a lot of different places
because they have an aquatic diet and a land diet. They can stick their head underwater (like a
duck) and eat algae, small fish and mollusks.
If they get tired of sticking their head underwater and swimming, then
there are always bugs! Frogturducks also
like to eat insects like moths, flies and crickets.
Food is not
the only thing that frogturducks need to survive because they are not on the
top of the food chain. They have many
predators. If they are flying then they
could be taken down an eagle or a hawk.
If they are swimming they could be eaten by a big fish like a northern
pike. If they are taking a little nap
then a snake could eat one up. They
usually rely on camouflage because they have brown feathers blend in with tree
bark and dead leaves. If a frogturduck
does get caught off guard then there is a slim chance that it will be protected
by its hard, but light shell. If they
see a snake coming then it will fly away or climb a tree using its sticky foot
pads.
by Ryan Peoples
