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California Red-legged Frog Rana aurora draytonii Made famous by Mark Twain's story, "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County", is listed as a Threatened species. At 5 1/4" it is the largest native frog west of the Sierras. In the 1800's it became a fashionable food in San Francisco restaurants. When the populations were diminished, bullfrogs were imported from the east. The Red-legged Frog's existence is threatened by these very bullfrogs which eat them, and by habitat loss from sprawl, logging, chemical spraying, and irrigation.

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