Sunday, November 26, 2006

Amphibian army


Tadpoles......I recently discovered these little amphibians starting their first steps on the road to world domination from my water snail tank that is located outside. Strangly there were non in the tank right next to it. I guess the Carnivorous Salamander may have had something to do with that. Something I couldn't figure out was how the frogs got in there in the first place. Maybe they streniously climbled the hedge leaf by leaf branch by branch till they could leap onto the deck to finally plunge into the murky tanky depths where the sounds of froggy love could be heard emanating from a kermit who had once travelled the same road to get there.......But no.... Please refer to Pic 2 and the unusually long toes of the frog. This would indeed be some kind of rare treefrog! He had simply scaled the glass sides of the tank with his uber feet bestowed on him by mother nature in all her glory. Not for the task of scaling glass surfaces of course but for jumping around in shrubberies. I later found this little rascal in a tarp that had been wanting to be cleaned out of the yard for a little while. I have never seen a frog of this sort in the area and was quite suprised to find one at all. He was very cold to the touch and eventually hopped off to entertain his harem of girl frogs who were no doubt waiting close by in the hedge.

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