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MASS SPAWNING


                                                                 Every year, common frogs lay their eggs
                                                                 in billowing masses of jelly called frogspawn.
                                                                 Frogs often share breeding sites, producing tens
                                                                 of thousands of eggs between them. Each black
                                                                 dot in the jelly is an egg that may grow into a
                                                                 tadpole. Only a tiny number hatch, as predators
                                                                 such as fish and insects devour the spawn.
















































































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