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If they bury in the mud how do they breathe,does the mud around them freeze?Why don't they freeze?

I don't know much about frogs but I watched in Discovery channel about a frog in winter-- they hibernate and burry themselves. They become very thin, almost like a dried leaf then as spring comes, they come back to their natural form again and eat their skin and thus, that is why in some cultures, Frogs symbolizes eternity.
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Where in Canada are you.

M.N

Where I live we have wood frogs which freeze solid in the winter their heart completely stops beating, thus they don't have to breeth. They are able to survive this process by a natural antifreeze made up mostly of a type of sugar that prevents the forming of sharp ice crystals that break up living cell membranes.

In my understanding, they bury themselves below the freezing level and then just lie dormant. They do not need to eat because their body basically shuts itself down. I guess that they breathe through their skin at this time somehow. It does fascinate me to look out at the frozen expanse of swampland behind our house, under three feet of snow, and know that there are frogs underneath that!!
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