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I called the thread frogs in case anyone want's to post the odd frog photo. I guess most of you wouldn't care much about frogs, but they are in decline, I haven't seen or heard this little chap (Eastern Dwarf Treefrog) around home here for 15 years, and late today I heard one, (the wet season has returned for the third year running). I first grabbed the tape recorder (Sony) and recorded the sound, and discovered where the frog was at the same time, then I took his photo, it's a very small frog even full grown, this one was only just over 1/2 inch long.
Greg

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great pics doc and greg , i never seem to see any frogs around nowadays

Very nice frog pics Greg and Doc . Frog pictures will have to wait for the spring.

Nice one, Doc! The specular reflections in the duckweed are a good dazzling touch.

Nice images. I have never been successful with frogs.

Crocodiles applies too? crocs and frogs are like cousins...

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Great shot, Pako. Hope it didn't bite a bit of you.

Thanks a lot guys, if you find any frogs in the future you can always post em on this thread.
Greg

pakodominguez wrote:Crocodiles applies too? crocs and frogs are like cousins...

Yeah, cousins from about 340 million years ago! Still, it's an amazing shot.

BTW, is that a crocodile or an alligator? I think it's the latter (wider jaw )

I think what Pako is sort of saying is that they're both amphibians, (not true amphibians though, that extract oxygen from water), I guess they might be related in some fashon, if you go back far enough through the ancestral tree to the original mudskipper that decided it didn't want to be a fish anymore

Doc, I'm pretty sure it's a crododile, has the telltale nostril bump, v shaped jaws and the 'ears' don't know exactly what sort (could be a porosus or maybe a nile), one thing I'm fairly sure of Pako didn't find it in Central Park.
I'll enclose a shot of 'Handbags' from another angle and you can see the jaws are very wide at the back and taper towards the front wheras Alligator jaws are more parrallel with a much more rounded end
Greg.

Well, we don't have much crocs here except for the govern.... hey, where are you taking me?....

Greg, did you kiss it, just in case it was a princess?

Here is my frog, though it's not a wild one:



As for crocodiles, I visited the Everglades >15 years ago and I didn't have any camera! Can you believe?

Ha ha Bossel, yeah I completely forgot to kiss it...dang! Hey I like that frog, where was it? in the garden? is it common in your area?
Greg

ps. Yep Doc I agree, pollies are usually about on the same level as a used car salesman, except the make even more promises that they don't keep.....