About six days later, tiny babies hatch and drop into the water below. These babies, called tadpoles, have round bodies, long tails, and no legs. Frogs are amphibians. That means they spend part of their lives in the water, and part on land. It also means that they go from tadpole to frog through a series of changes called metamorphosis.
Tadpoles breathe through gills like a fish.
They swim around in the water and eat tiny plants and bacteria. After a few weeks their hind legs develope. The tadpoles grow larger and their front legs begin to show. They develope lungs and begin to look more like frogs. The tiny red-eyed tree frogs are ready to leave the water and live in trees.