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Tuesday, April 7, 2009

Night music or noise - you decide

One persons music is another persons noise. I happen to like the extremely loud rebits of the the tree frog that has taken to hanging in my backyard. i am guessing it is a male trying to attract the female frog to his new digs.

here is a little info about tree frogs.
As the name implies, these frogs are typically found in very tall trees or other high-growing vegetation. They do not normally descend to the ground, except to mate and spawn—but some even build foam nests on leaves and during their adult lives rarely leave the trees at all.
The back color of tree frogs is typically a vivid green, uniformly so in many species, subtly patterned in others, altogether giving an excellent camouflage depending on the particular kind of vegetation they inhabit and what predators they have to hide away from. But many tree frogs can change their color to a remarkable extent, and thus when resting on bark they are usually brownish grey.
Tree frogs are usually minuscule, as their weight has to be carried by the branches and twigs of their habitat. While some reach 10 cm (4 in) or more, they are hardly in the same size class as "grass frogs" (which ironically contain some species belonging to the "true" tree frogs, Hylidae). Typical for "tree frogs" are the well-developed discs at the finger and toe tips; the fingers and toes themselves as well as the limbs tend to be rather long, resulting in a superior grasping ability.

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