It's almost time....

This little guy and his family will soon burrow into the bottom of my pond to hide from the winter weather. They will use the pond for a hibernaculum, a safe place to protect them from predators and the freezing weather.
How can they possible survive?? Here's the answer I found....

And yet the frogs do not die. Why? Antifreeze! True enough, ice crystals form in such places as the body cavity and bladder and under the skin, but a high concentration of glucose in the frog's vital organs prevents freezing. A partially frozen frog will stop breathing, and its heart will stop beating. It will appear quite dead. But when the hibernaculum warms up above freezing, the frog's frozen portions will thaw, and its heart and lungs resume activity--there really is such a thing as the living dead!

I wanted to let him shine one more time before he disappears for the season, so here he is...an incredible example of cryogenics!!