Abstract

Frogs and toads are living in many different water environments, such as paddles, rivers or parks in a city.
This photo book is written by the photographer who loves nature and kept observing frogs and toads in all over the Japan and taking them.
Can you guess why the number of them has decreased recently?
He found the reasons by visiting to meet 48 kinds of them all over in Japan.
Featured numerous pictures of the frogs and toads living in Japan, including non-native species introduced from other countries.
You can see dynamically powerful jumps, the most beautiful looking or sounds of chirping species in Japan, feeding children frog as a parent after hugging of the eggs for hatching, living frogs on a tree, and so on.

Let's think of the living together with human and small animal like them.

Author’s Information

Born in 1972, Kobe city, Hyogo prefecture, Japan.
A Nature photographer who tries to take pictures of ordinary lives as amphibians, reptiles and freshwater fish and so on as his lifeworks.
He is also the head and general director of the organization "AZ Relief", they assists to start up any facilities related living things from Aqualium to Zoo.