The California Red-legged Frog

The California Red-legged Frog is one more of San Diego's native organisms. The California Red-legged Frog or also known in scientific terms as Rana draytonii, is a frog found primarily along the coast in some isolated areas. These frogs are a pretty unique color. They almost look to be like a plum color, but also have accents of black, grey, reddish, and olive colors that when mixed together might actually be the color of the Rana draytonii. While this frog you might think, is just like any other frog, it actually plays a really important role along the coastline. This frog is actually an important food source. The San Fransisco Garter Snake feeds upon these red-legged frogs, and it is it's primary food source. The California Red-legged Frog is such an important part of the food web, that should it become extinct, there would be a decrease in the other subspecies of the frog, and also the San Fransisco Garter snake would suffer as well, because that organism is actually endangered. There would be a huge issue. A lot of times, this is the similar case to many other animals. This kind of situation happens all the time, and causes certain species to die out, and others to thrive. The California Red-legged Frog is a great example of an important player in this huge game of life.
As mentioned above, the California Red-legged Frog plays a huge role in the food web, and also mentioned above, this is a similar situation for many other organisms. In most cases, people don't really realize how much of an effect every single organism that exists, really has. There are many people who have no idea what a food web is, or anything like that, but this blog about the California Red-legged Frog makes this message more clear.