{"id":1861,"date":"2020-08-22T19:19:29","date_gmt":"2020-08-22T19:19:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.frogpets.com\/?p=1861"},"modified":"2021-06-27T02:15:15","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T02:15:15","slug":"do-frogs-have-hair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.frogpets.com\/do-frogs-have-hair\/","title":{"rendered":"Do Frogs Have Hair?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
As mammals, having hair, taking care of hair, and cutting hair are completely normal for us. Many of the animals we surround ourselves with as pets have hair too. Even dolphins and whales have hair, due to their mammalian ancestry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But do frogs have hair?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Their skin may look similarly slippery to that of a dolphin, but a key difference between them is that frogs lack both hair and hair follicles. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Because of how porous a frog\u2019s skin must be to help it breathe, the thick keratin necessary to make hair would only suffocate them. However, there is a frog whose common name is almost an oxymoron: the Hairy Frog.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Trichobatrachus robustus<\/em>\u200b, commonly known as the Hairy Frog, makes its home in the wet detritus of west-central Africa\u2019s forests and rainforests. They are largely terrestrial but return to freshwater streams and creeks to breed and lay their eggs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n For frogs, their environment and behavior are pretty typical. It\u2019s only when you look at a hairy frog closely that things start to get weird.<\/p>\n\n\n\nHairless Hairy Frogs<\/h2>\n\n\n\n