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Rogers, Benton County, Arkansas, USA
Thanks to Adaire for letting me photograph her froggies at Ecology Camp.
This guy (gal?) was hanging out on the side of the garage door when we got home today. Tree frogs are the coolest, and I love how they sing at night. Music to my ears.
For reasons that herpetologists don't quite understand, treefrogs love hanging out in PVC pipes that are stuck in the ground. If she has her camera out, that must mean there's a frog - or two - in the pipe.
TAXONOMY
Kingdom: Animalia
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Hylidae
Genus/species: Agalychnis callidryasAgalychnis callidryas
DISTRIBUTION/HABITAT: Southeastern Mexico, through Central America, to northwestern Colombia. Habitat: Live near ponds or rivers in neotropical rainforests from sea level up to 960 m. These nocturnal frogs are completely arboreal. During the day they remain motionless, blending in among the foliage. They live in warm (75-85° F, day; 66-77° F, night), humid (80-100%) climates.
9-1-14 *Not currently on display
Costa Rica CRO6
A word here about Gray treefrogs, as many of you have noticed, moist of the Gray Trteefrogs that you see on my images are green in color. That is because the majority of the ones I photograph are found in milkweed plants which are green in color. If ykou find a Gray Treefrog on a tree trunk it will probably be gray in color. They are chameleon-like hence they will take on the background color of the item on which they are sitting at the time. They are new true "chameleons" as they will not take on any colors but shades of grey and green and combinations there of. Also the markings are very variable, some having mottled patterns and others having indistinct or no patterns.
Kensington Metro Park, MI
He showed up on our kitchen window one night and ate some little bugs. The kids named him Sticky. That's Connor's finger for a size comparison.
This newly morphed Gray Treefrog was very co-operative for photos, along with the four others nearby. Gray Treefrogs may sometimes be green!
I often hear Pacific Treefrogs, whose voices are large for their body size, but here I had an opportunity to actually see some and to get photos at Nisqually NWR.