More spring sightings: Have had Wood Frogs (Rana sylvatica) and Spring Peepers (Hyla crucifer) calling in the last few days from wet areas in the surrounding #forest.
But the Wikipedia tells me that Spring Peepers are now Pseudacris crucifer and Wood Frogs are Lithobates sylvaticus. I cannot keep up with all of this scientific name changing. I shall now just call them all "frogs."
A fire salamander (Salamandra salamandra): I met this little guy while #cycling on forest roads in the Swabian-Franconian forest. #winter#nature#amphibian
Leider geht es dem Feuersalamander (Salamandra salamandra) aufgrund der eingeschleppten Salamanderpest (Bsal) immer mehr an den Kragen. Vielerorts sind Massensterben zu verzeichnen.
🖖 Lurchi
On a moonlit night in the early Carboniferous, two Pulmonoscorpius do a mating dance in the Lepidodendron swamp. Although the giant scorpions have little interest in prey right now, a Balanerpeton amphibian wisely decides to swim away, while several Casineria sleep through the night in the copious tree litter.
Look who I found in the greenhouse yesterday (I almost stepped on him). I think it's Cope's Gray Treefrog, Hyla chrysoscelis. I'm in Michigan, Zone 6a, where two feet of snow is slowly melting. #frog#amphibian
A male American toad has taken up residence in our small garden pond and has been serenading us all night. What I think is particularly interesting is that you can see the ripples coming off its body as it makes its trilling call. Taken in Madison, Wisconsin. #toad#vocalizing#calling#frog#amphibian#naturephotography#wildlifephotography#night
You could say that the #purple#frog resembles a turtle without its shell. That’s what the good people of #Idukki in #Kerala say. Or you could say that this amazing #amphibian looks like a bruised, bloated beanbag with beady eyes and a bootylicious backside. That’s what I say.
#Evolution rightly has no respect for conventional beauty standards. Instead, it sculpts and tweaks the forms of living things so they become adapted to their #environment.