Okay, I know this is kind of a copy off Anuck's turtle appreciation thread. But I figured if we had one for turtles, why not for frogs?

I love frogs, always have. I used to go down to the creek by my childhood home, catch frogs, and put them into a bucketful of water when I was little. Then I had to lug it back home. It was heavy, but I was excited to take them home to show my family. After a couple of days, I would let them go back to the creek where I got them from. A few times, I even had polywogs that I watched developed into baby frogs (pretty cool).




A blue frog! Never even knew such a thing existed. Isn't he/she pretty?




A red-eyed tree frog. I love their red eyes and feet.




Wow, is this frog even real? It looks artificial.

psychodelicide said:

Kind of? Kind of?

psychodelicide said:

i love those blue poison dart frog..i use to have one..of course not it wasn't filled with poison..they only have poison becuase of the beatle they eat.

I like those pics but you won't see me touching one of those

PANDURITO said:

Hush you.

weepingwall said:

The blue poison dart frog is the first one? It figures I would like a frog that was poisonous.

PANDURITO said:

There are frogs that contain venom

If you lick them you'll hallucinate like you're on acid

A few years ago there were reports of people licking frogs in a zoo here
[Edited 4/30/07 18:25pm]

Dewrede said:

Eww, who in their right minds would lick a frog just to hallucinate? Guess some people have nothing better to do.

Steadwood said:

OMG, that cartoon cracks me up!!

I love frogs, even though sometimes they scare me when they jump out of nowhere. Those pictures are awesome and almost surreal.

Yeah


Actually it's a toad , sorry
Bufo Marinus ;


http://www.erowid.org/arc...d/news.htm

psychodelicide said:

It's kinda sad and funny at the same time.

Make sure to gather as many pictures of them as possible...in a few years they'll all be gone.





Full story HERE

the master said one day he was going to make frogs legs for dinner for me to try, and I said OK, try anything once

so he went and got them from the market, and served them up.

and they looked like a little pair of human legs!

I could not eat them



when he was a kid his mum sent him down to the pond to catch frogs for dinner all the time, or to slingshot pigeons, they didn't really have much else to eat

AnckSuNamun said:

Yeah, it is freaky when they jump out right in front of you. It's like yikes!!

Dewrede said:

I like toads too, although they always have a pissed-off look on their face.

I used to get those Peace frog stickers when I was younger.

AnckSuNamun said:

psychodelicide said:

PurpleJedi said:

Thanks for sharing that, that's really sad to think that frogs and toads are going to be wiped out. Kinda like the Polar Bears.

I wonder where do you find a blue frog like that? I'd love to own one. I'd love to have a huge aquarium with little departments for geckos, lizards, frogs, and turtles.

this little guy helped me make a new friend

ZombieKitten said:

That's sad that they didn't have a lot to eat and they had to hunt for their food.

AnckSuNamun said:

touch it and you die!

AnckSuNamun said:

Those are neat! I like them.

Dewrede said:

AnckSuNamun said:

Me too! It would be neat to have a blue frog to show off to people you know. I just found this on the internet about them, it turns out that they're poisonous:

Blue poison dart frog
Dendrobates azureus



Species Information
Exhibit Name and Location
Tropical Rain Forest Exhibit – Main Aquarium, Level 5
Description of Animal

These little frogs are easily recognized by their blue color, which is generally darker on the limbs and belly and overlaid with black spots or patches, especially on the head and back.

As their name implies, poison dart frogs can release toxins from the skin that are distasteful and potentially lethal to would-be predators. Three very toxic species of poison dart frogs from Colombia and South America are utilized by Indians to poison the tips of blowgun darts.

Blue poison dart frogs are active during the day and can be found hiding among boulders and debris near streams; however, they lack toe webbing and are poor swimmers, so they are never found in the water.

Aquarist's Note

This colorful frog was not even discovered until 1968!

Several years ago, curator Jack Cover and an Aquarium team traveled to South America to research this frog and were permitted to bring back a few specimens.

Those specimens became the foundation for a nationally renowned breeding program.

The program's goal is to maintain a healthy, self-sustaining captive population and eliminate the need to collect frogs from the wild. As a result, the National Aquarium in Baltimore supplies blue poison dart frogs to zoos and aquariums across the country.

Ultimately, this program could provide frogs for reintroduction should the wild population ever become extinct.

Diet

In the wild, the frog's diet is the source of its skin toxins. A constant forager, this frog is always searching for ants, termites, tiny beetles, and any other small insect it may find among the leaf litter.

Such foods are difficult to provide in captivity.

Specimens born at the aquarium are fed fruit flies and baby crickets powdered with a vitamin/mineral supplement. As a result, the frogs are completely non-toxic.

Size
An adult frog has a body about 2 inches (5 cm) long and weighs about 0.3 ounce (8 g).
Range

These frogs are found in a few isolated “rain forest islands” in the Sipaliwini savanna of southern Suriname.

This area was probably covered by rainforest habitat in the distant past—until the last ice age.

Then, the rain forest gave way to dry grassland in all but a few areas where surface ground water was sufficient to sustain the original vegetation.

The blue poison dart frog is a relic species living in a few isolated patches of relic rainforest habitat.

Population Status

The habitat is remote and difficult to reach, so accurate population monitoring is a challenge.

Regardless of numbers, however, this species is highly vulnerable to both human activities and natural factors such as drought due to its extremely small range and isolated populations.

Predators

Other than certain snakes and large spiders, there are few predators that can cope with the noxious poisons of adult frogs.

The tadpoles, which are not protected by any poison, often fall prey to snakes and dragonfly larvae.

emm said:

Awww, cute!