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The eggs have may challenges to overcome before being hatched. Even though she lays many eggs (1,000-2,000), not very many eggs will survive to hatch and emerge into the river. Some eggs are not fertilized and other eggs are damaged when she places the gravel over them. Sometimes another trout will pick the same location to spawn after she has, and destroys the redd.
The number of eggs a frog can lay differs by frog species. Some, like the Western Chorus Frog, lay few eggs (20-100) while others, like the Northern Spring Peeper, lay thousands of eggs. The American Bullfrogs lay their eggs in large, flat floating rafts that may contain up to 20,000 eggs.