This was the start of his community service project FROGs: Friends Reaching Our Goals.
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Will Lourcey, founder of FROGs, is a fourth grader at Tanglewood Elementary in Fort Worth, Texas.
"To our surprise, the habitat is there, but no frogs, no frogs at all, " he said.
White's tree frogs must use all that mucus for something, but not as glue.
This metaphor, which you may have heard in a different context, has to do with frogs.
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But if success is also measured by the fun quotient, Venture Frogs is stumbling.
Venture Frogs was a backer of the search engine Ask Jeeves, which went public in July.
We love fairy tales yet are fascinated by princes who turn out to be frogs.
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In the wild, adult night monkeys eat leaves, insects and small lizards and frogs.
It has been suggested some frogs and even spiders are using stars for orientation.
Pliny the Elder, writing in the first century AD, mentioned storms of frogs and fish.
He contributed to online discussions about musicals and opera, gardening, and the care of African dwarf frogs.
But state officials hope they can stop the frogs from taking over Oahu, the most populated island.
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The closing track on the album, for example, is a 31-minute field recording of spring peepers (frogs).
We go up to her room, where all the frogs are, and sit on her built-in window seat.
Frogs may be less charismatic than some other troubled species, but their role in the environment is important.
Hsieh, originally an adviser and investor through a concern called Venture Frogs, joined the company a year later.
Volunteers would also carry toads, frogs and newts in buckets because many were unable to climb the kerbs.
In fact, the frogs that have been in the pot for a while sometimes decades insist things are just fine.
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The public face of their San Francisco firm, Venture Frogs, is more Melrose Place than Sand Hill Road.
In the ponds and flooded areas, they're hoping for frogs, toads, newts, aquatic plants, damsel flies and dragonflies.
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Webbed feet and hands, of course, are a common trait of swimming animals from frogs to whales.
Seventy-seven people survived, thanks in part to a Homestead man who was catching frogs from his airboat that night.
The air was alive with moths and the chirrups of frogs and cicadas.
Fleas, locusts and frogs use their legs as springs to store energy and then fire them into the air.
Timber felling and mining are a much greater risk to the frogs he has studied in Peru, he says.
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Large bowls and baskets full of insects and frogs were strewn around.
Under the current system, record companies must kiss a lot of frogs to find a few princes among up-and-coming artists.
But bruises, insects and frogs are forgotten as the tired but happy tourists quaff their drinks and relive the day's adventure.
One of the world's most commonly used herbicides, atrazine, poses a serious threat to frogs and other amphibians, American scientists claim.
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