Hyla arenicolor
Canyon treefrog basking and then plunging into a rocky pool to escape an apparent danger me). These amazing animals spend all day clinging camouflaged to hot rocks and keeping cool by losing 30% of their body mass in water in the beating sun. At night, they release their hold on their rocky perch and plunge into the pools below them, replenishing their lost water before foraging. Come morning, they will return to the same open perch.
Mesa County, CO.
Hyla arenicolor
Canyon treefrog basking and then plunging into a rocky pool to escape an apparent danger me). These amazing animals spend all day clinging camouflaged to hot rocks and keeping cool by losing 30% of their body mass in water in the beating sun. At night, they release their hold on their rocky perch and plunge into the pools below them, replenishing their lost water before foraging. Come morning, they will return to the same open perch.
Mesa County, CO.