Rane, rospi e tritoni

Most of us have come across an amphibious animal by chance. We may have heard frogs croaking on a spring evening, bumped into a toad on a summernight, passed by a pond and discovered the movement of hundreds of tadpoles. The incredible transformation that these animals undergo, from being born and living in the water to venturing on the ground, has always fascinated biologists and naturalists. This book is dedicated to the life, environment and metamorphoses of a surprising species whose name, "amphibious", mean exactly "double life".