User:JoeyFerlatte/sandbox

Summary
The Poisonous Bitter Frog other known as Prog, is a descendant of frogs. The prog has 4 important qualities: poisons, sharp teeth, can smell blood, and groups up with other progs. The prog's poison is able to paralyze and kill it's prey in a matter of 10 minutes alone, and is not at all effective to humans, owls, eagles, and other mammals. The sharp teeth is used to either finish or eat it's prey, and is able to eat a bass in less then 15 seconds. The third feature of the prog is that it is able to smell its prey from half a mile away. Another feature of the prog is that it is able to group up into a pack of 10 - 15 progs without an alpha, the progs typically just sense their prey and head towards it, eventually meeting up, and depart from each other after the prey has been finished.

How It Adapted
The prog was for a long time thought to be adapted from a piranha, because of its similar bone structure to the piranha. Another reason people thought it was a sub species of piranhas is because of its ability to group up and kill its prey. They called it a prog just for that reason, it is a frog but has the main qualities of a piranha. The main reason the prog has been thought to adapted was that it had been hunted by many natural predators that now are prey. The average rodent ate frogs but when the adaptation of a prog came in it had changed the way it was hunted forever. In fact, the average prog or frog death per year has been decreased since then.

Metabolism
Progs have a diet of rodents, bugs, and small fish, they are strictly carnivores. Progs normally hide and surprise their victims by giving them poison, then eating it alive. Sometimes a prog is able to kill its prey with out using it's poison because the prog's poison is very limited which happens very often. A prog normally lives up to 3 years until they run out of poison or die of a disease or old age. A prog sounds like a hunter but it also is prey to owls, eagles, and even humans often used in fancy sushi. Most progs aren't alone, as you know the prog will group up, but not on purpose, only because they have the same objective. The average death by prog is not by one prog but by a small pack of them of about 15.

Habitat
Progs live in the Eastern United States, caves, rain forests, and rivers. For example, Green Swamp, Everglades, Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary ect. A prog's habitat is on land which is near a water source where they can breed under water. However progs can survive anywhere depending on the species. For example the Serpent Prog lives near oceans, close to beaches. The Deep Prog lives in deep caves that have underground stalagmites that drip water as a water source. Some of the progs never use water like the ones that live in deserts, called Desert Prog.

Reproduction
Two main types of reproduction occur in progs, prolonged breeding and explosive breeding. In the former, adopted by the majority of species, adult progs at certain times of year assemble at a pond, lake or stream to breed. Many progs return to the bodies of water in which they developed as larvae. This often results in annual migrations involving thousands of individuals. In explosive breeders, mature adult progs arrive at breeding sites in response to certain trigger factors such as rainfall occurring in an arid area. In these progs, mating and spawning take place promptly and the speed of larval growth is rapid in order to make use of the ephemeral pools before they dry up. Frogs typically lay their eggs in water. The eggs hatch into aquatic larvae, called tadpoles, that have tails and internal gills.