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Default OT -- Tiger Frogs

The Ranger wrote:
> The four of us squatted down around the tank that housed the
> remaining eight tadpoles we'd liberated from a nearby creek. I
> watched as a prime example of Darwinian Progress climbed out of
> the water and onto the side of the tank, almost a frog (except the
> remaining nub of a tail.) "Wow..." I breathed. "Cool, huh? You
> going to call up your uncles and friends about this?"
>
> The Ranger


Heh. When I lived in Bangkok I got a bunch of slimy goo out of the pond
from our front yard. Much to the maids dismay I confiscated one of her big
steel wash tubs and pile some rocks in the middle and filled it with water
and deposited said goo (frog eggs) into it. After a short while, the eggs
turned into a multitude of tadpoles swimming around. Then the tadpoles
morphed into teeny tiny frogs. They came out of the water, crawling all
over the rocks I'd piled up in the wash tub. They were tiny and very cute!
Most of them didn't survive due to the excessive heat (hey, get back in the
water!) but those that did eventually hopped off (still very tiny!) to live
in the ponds in our front yard. The ponds were naturally fed (klong water)
and had lovely flowering lily pads floating on them. Ahh, memories but no
photos!

Jill