#frogs
Took my group down to the river to sample for #tadpoles of the Julian's and Vaillants #frogs, two species we suspect are hybridizing. A project I started in 2019 and since have sampled hundreds of tadpoles.
I developed it specifically for hot days. Play into the river and catch little pollywogs? Sign me up!
We delimit species according to denticle rows around their mouth (pictured here). So far, we have found several dozen that exhibit characteristics of both species.
All tadpoles released! 🐸
With Artyčok.tv again and Tomáš Šenkyřík on a bird trip to Zelienka reserve
More photos in this photo album
Listen to the field recording:
https://webs.node9.org/cloud/leaf/Zelienka/Zelienka_20230527.m4a
#fieldrecording #birds #frogs
saw a new frog today!! i believe this is a Green Frog despite being more of a brown frog. i guess they can be like every single color, i saw some pictures of blue ones!! pretty cool.
i really like their thin snout and orange eye and gigantic tympanum. they were just across the way from the other frog i posted earlier. just two friends hanging out under a little bridge and there was a little concrete wall i could sit on to get a good look at em. really not sure why they let me get so close to them or take their pictures for so long but i really appreciate that they did. i love frogs.
#frogs #nature #NaturePhotography #WildlifePhotography #photography
In a backyard setting, a small pond will be very beneficial to #wildlife. Here's the hand-dug bi-level pond in my garden. The upper section is shallow for animals to bathe and drink: bees, birds, bunnies. The lower section is wider (<4.5 feet) deeper (<3 feet). #Frogs in my area prefer small quiet ponds.
The special black liner can be purchased, seen here because deer, my nemesis, knocked many rocks off.
More in future toots.
Info requested by:
@dasgrueneblatt
From the brightly colored poison frogs of South America to the prehistoric-looking newts of the Western US, the world is filled with beautiful, deadly amphibians. In recent years, scientists are starting to unravel the mysteries they hold.
Read more:
👉 @KnowableMag https://arevie.ws/PoisonousAmphibians
👉 Lea en español https://es.knowablemagazine.org/article/living-world/2023/misterios-anfibios-venenosos?utm_source=annualreviews&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=originals&cookieSet=1
👉 AR Animal Biosciences https://arevie.ws/ToxicRelationsAV
📷 EMILEN4EV / SHUTTERSTOCK
🐸👅 https://thekidshouldseethis.com/post/frog-toad-tongues-saliva-science-research-video
“#Toads nab their prey 5 times faster than the blink of an eye. How do they do it? They pop their lower jaw open, and launch their supersoft tongue at their meal, enveloping their prey. When their unique saliva hits prey at a high speed, it thins out dramatically, pouring into every nook and cranny the tongue touches. Then it becomes sticky again, drawing that meal down the hatch.”
#video #science #slowmotion #animals #amphibians #frogs #biology
#FroggyTales #frogs Ghost is growing nicely. You can see how different an albino Chorus frog looks compared to his mates.
A friend, with a lot more on the way. Both ponds are filled with tadpoles.
#art #photo #Photography #foto #fotografie #frogs #fujifilm #nature #naturephotography
"The Izecksohn’s Brazilian treefrog might be the world’s first known pollinating amphibian. On an expedition near Armação dos Búzios, researchers observed the species eating nectar from the milk fruit tree — a messy endeavour that causes pollen to stick to the moist skin on the frog’s back, where it might be transferred to another flower."
https://www.nature.com/immersive/d41586-023-01804-5/index.html
(Btw my book, Jungle-tastic Tales, features a frog who turns into a jaguar!)
If you build it will they come?
From a hand-dug pond in a suburban back yard, a frog chorus begins after three days of rain.
How many species can you discern?
#soundscape #frogs #nature #biodiversity
Of special interest to:
@Fragglemuppet
@blindquilter
The photos are not great but the subjects are... Green and black poison dart frogs. Two of them hopping in dead leaves under the thick forest canopy. Very small, very fast, very cute, and also poisonous so they should not be licked.
Manuel Antonio National Park, Costa Rica.
#Frogs #Amphibians #PoisonDartFrogs #DoNotLick #Travel #CostaRica #Nature #Wildlife #NaturePhotography #WildlifePhotography
Nothing is safe from these frogs if they get their huge gaping mouths around it.
Read the full article: Pacman Frog lifespan: [Why It is Longer in Captivity?]
▸ https://lttr.ai/ACQ8Y
#pacmanfrog #Frogs #VariouslyHugeMouths #HugeGapingMouths #PacmanFrogLives
Pests by Bethany BrookShire
What makes a pest? Is such a label even fair? A fantastic blend of narrative and science, this book looks at different animals across time and space and our relationship to them. Prepare to have your assumptions challenged, no matter what your current viewpoint.
#BookReview #Pests #Review #Animals #Nature #Wildlife #Cats #Deer #Wolves #Coyotes #Frogs #Mice #Rats #Invasive #People #Relationships #Ownership #Stewardship #Humility #Pigeons #Science #Ecology #Management
The breeding call of the tiny Pacific Tree Frog is surprisingly loud and is often used as a soundtrack in movies and cartoons. https://www.naturecompanion.ca/herps/pactfrog/ #NatureCompanion #frogs
Um, #frogs / #frogsofmastodon, should we relocate this little guy to the pond? Or is he happy on. Uh. The screen door?
Guess he could be trying to warm up? Though it's a warm day heh.
EDIT: he left, guessing he was just warming his butt.
At 4pm they turn on the frogs.
First hike since the disastrous one on 12/31/2021, when covid changed my lungs. Felt sooo good to be back in the woods, in boots and with day pack.
Awwwe, Morty the frog didn't leap for my fingerworms when I stuck the phone in her tank, she luv me.
#frogs
It's #FrogFriday (#FroschFreitag?) Bullfrogs are the largest frogs around here - and the only ones, whose tadpoles overwinter. Their sonorous call sounds a bit like a bull - hence the name.
After one night in San Jose we setup to leave the central valley of Costa Rica by road through the cloud forest, and then by boat, to reach the rain forest on the Caribbean coast .
My first animal encounter was this strawberry poison dart frog. As its name suggests, it can be used to coat darts for hunting. It's skin secretion are very toxic if they enter the blood stream.
They are very small and very very cute.
We've finally uploaded the video that we took right after this picture. It shows the frogs of Okeson Pond in Palmer, Alaska making quite a racket!
Now, alive frog in your food, this sounds disgusting, but it's true.
#frogs #frogstodon #nature Ghost's little friend Spirit. Very tiny. They look other wordly. Albino Pacific chorus frogs. Enchanting. #magical
Filled up the watering can and this guy popped out of the spout.
#PhotoMonday #FotoMontag #frogs #BackyardWildlife #photography
#theBeeAt3
Basic bee facts every day at 3pm.
#WorldBeeDay Special.
A fact and a confession:
I’m The Bee Guy and I talk to bees.
On a regular basis.
I greet them as they pass.
I apologise for us.
I ask if they’re okay.
And #trees
And #birds
And #wasps
And #hoverflies
And #ladybirds
And #butterflies
And #frogs
But mostly #bees
Especially #bumblebees
Try it.
Record Highs (2022) [4 min] by Beryl Allee #USA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Y8BPw4GGc0
#2D #2DAnimation #AnimatedShort #AnimatedShortOfTheDay #Animation #Frogs #Competition
URGENT CORRECTION what I imagined was a peeper turned out to be a lovelorn gulf coast toad. The species doesn’t really matter, I’m still not getting any sleep tonight #frogs
Life/Spring part 3:
Getting legs and getting moving. Pacific tree frogs and duckweed in man-made pond in front of our house.
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#pacifictreefrog #frogs #amphibia #pondlife #backyardwildlife #smallanimals #spring #aquaticlife #habitatgardens #Nature
Several leopard frogs have joined the peepers in the nightly froggy mating call jamboree outside my bedroom window. Add in the katydids and it’s a brain-splitting triple bill. Kill me now. #frogs
Many a sad frog.
Find them as stickers here!
:storenvy: https://snowifer.storenvy.com/
A red-eyed treefrog (Agalychnis callidryas) out and about on a wet night. One of the iconic critters in Costa Rica and I’m happy to see and photograph lots of them 🙂 #frogs #nature #herps #CostaRica
SOUND UP. Just tryna catch up on Drag Race All Stars but this dadgum tiny, horny frog is STILL in an undisclosed location outside my bedroom losin’ his absolute SHIT with the screaming, and it’s harshing my mellow. It’s SO loud. Don’t know if you can tell from my shitty iPhone soundtrack, but it’s as if a tiny chainsaw did it with a dentist’s drill and gave birth to a baby jackhammer. Either he needs to sashay away, or herd of snake assassins needs to take him ALL the way out. Because I’m gettin NO SLEEP this way. #frogs
#FroggyTales #Frogs. New crop of chorus frogs. But there is a special colorless one. You'll have to look carefully. In the video look for the eyes. Top center.
The bark of a male Green Treefrog a few minutes ago hidden somewhere above my front porch.
Good luck Treefrog. This type of "Hey Baby" call has never worked for me.
This lovely pile of bibliophile frogs lives outside the Saratoga Springs Public Library in Saratoga Springs, New York.
#sculpture #PublicArt #Art #library #libraries #LibraryArt #frog #frogs
Weeding uncovers a Fowler's Toad, common in this area. And they are always welcome!
Frogs consume large amounts of pests, not the least of which are mosquitos. By their habitat destruction and chemical use, humans kill off frog populations, then complain about mosquitoes.
This garden has a purpose-built pond for frog breeding and tadpole development. A small price to pay for 24X7 mosquito control.
"Several frog species are feared to be locally extinct in parts of New South Wales after the black summer bushfires, a survey of amphibian populations has found."
It is easy being green. This single green, tree frog sits nestled among the viridescent foliage hiding in plain sight!
Being Green - https://chrystyne-novack.pixels.com/featured/being-green-chrystyne-novack.html
#AYearForArt #Photography #FediGiftShop #Frogs
#BuyIntoArt #CreativeToots #fotografie #Wildlife
i had to move instances & haven't been on here in ages so... hi, let me do an #intro
my name is beau, or boogie. i like: #reading, korean music, cop dramas (acab tho), true crime (not in a weird way), #jellyfish, #frogs, #bats #siphonophore and davinci.
i am #audhd, mentally ill & recently diagnosed with carpal tunnel syndrome which is somewhat annoying as at this very moment my entire arm is hurting because i am holding my phone.
anyway, nice to meet you.
The pond corner. The barrel will hold #peas later, but now it's #tulips (starring the double orange Orca), plus purple honesty that I dug up from where it had self-seeded. Behind it, #hellebores obscure the tiny pond, which is tucked into the corner and supports a few #frogs and #newts. A neighbor offered me her Victorian fireplace surround so I put it here with a mirror tucked behind, a trick from garden designer Mirabel Osler.
on days 66 & 67 of drawing animals I drew a bunch of frogs. frogs are cool, and can do funny things with their legs. And their tongues, still need to study frog range of movement and frog tongue action at some point ...
Not much of #frogfriday left but here's a White-bellied Leaf Frog (Heterixalus alboguttatus) observed near Ranomafana park in #Madagascar. #nature #naturephotography #herps #frogs
For this #frogfriday I'm bringing the fire - the Fiery Bright-eyed Frog (*Boophis pyrrhus*), observed during my recent visit to Madagascar. This male was caught up in his vocalizations and allowed me to capture a few photos mid-performance. #nature #frogs #herps #naturephotography #madagascar
I'm a student vet tech who's obsessed with #frogs and am learning #guitar! 🐸 🎸
I'm currently struggling with an undiagnosed #chronicillness (Maybe fibromyalgia. Still harassing my Dr(s) for answers) 😖
In my free time I game. I usually play bigger games WAY after their popularity has died down, some indie games, and rarely mobile games. :blobcatgamer:
Hopeful I'll have many great interactions here! 👋
This is one of the sweetest expressions of love for animals I have ever seen. I’m enamored with this Dazza fellow and his little frog sanctuary. 😍
#Animals #Frogs #Engineering #Love #Kindness #Habitat #Sanctuary
There's frogspawn in the pond, there's frogspawn in the pond!! 🐸 #Frogs #WaterLilly #PondLife #SpringIsComing
A new species of frog has been described from the tropical Andes of Ecuador and named after J.R.R. Tolkien, the author of famous works of fantasy literature.
Only one individual of the species has been found, within the bounds of Río Negro-Sopladora National Park.
Read the story from Liz Kimbrough.
#Frogs #TropicalForests #Ecuador #News #Conservation #Environment
More frogs.
Making.
More frogs.
(We did warn you that there would be a lot of frog content here at the moment as they are only active in this manner for a matter of a few days a year - bee content will resume as normal as soon as the little feckers wake up!).
#frogs #frogsofmastodon #herpetology
#bees #beesanctuaryireland #savingbees #nature #sanctuary #water #organic #vegan #good #naturephotography #frogspawn #wildlifephotography #wildlife
Ranitomeya ventrimaculata, a Peruvian poison frog small enough to sit comfortably on my thumbnail. #frogs #herps #herpetology #nature #naturephotography
Research from Europe has shown large #solar farms can enhance the diversity and abundance of plants, grasses, #butterflies, #bees and #birds.
What’s more, vegetation between solar panel rows can also provide travel corridors, nesting sites and shelter for #wildlife. Management strategies are key to maximizing these benefits of solar farms.
https://theconversation.com/win-win-how-solar-farms-can-double-as-havens-for-our-wildlife-194920
#Biodiversity #WildlifeCorridors #Nesting #Frogs #Habitat #Shelter #Agriculture #LandUse #WildlifeHaven #SolarFarms
#Dogwalking miscellany
Tiiiiiny green tree frog
These shots took a lot of effort in post to rescue something vaguely worth posting, since they were shot in low light on an iPhone 3GS (and with the usual handicap of two dogs on the leash). However I thought the frog was so cute is was worth a post. In the first shot is my usual measuring stick, the ISO Standard Left Leg. The frog appears to be about 1,000 little millitoes long.
#photography #nature #frogs #TreeFrog #wildlife #iphoneography #iphone3gs #humour