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Amazing Frog Video

Posted on Feb 15th, 2009 by Bird : Bird Bird

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEa3_mlCX9g

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Singing frogs

Posted on Feb 14th, 2009 by Bird : Bird Bird

The woods are full of peepers.  You can hear the din. I was existing somewhere between wakefulness and sleep yesterday morning when the frogs in my aquarium started singing.  I was thinking, "Louder!  Louder!  And... More »

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frog problems

Posted on Feb 5th, 2009 by Bird : Bird Bird

I just so happened to spend the day reading about the calcium/phosphorus ratio of foods when I went home to find that one of my favorite frogs developed a prolapsed rectum.  Calcium deficiency seems to... More »

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malaysian leaf frog

Posted on Nov 2nd, 2008 by Bird : Bird Bird

My newest pet, Beowulf, is fascinating.  He doesn't move much, preferring to wait for his prey instead.  Where he's from there are scorpions and little crabs to eat.  A few mice, frogs, and lizards too. ... More »

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Dust in the wind

Posted on Aug 22nd, 2008 by Bird : Bird Bird

So this lady in my art class applies sevin dust to kill the japanese beetles on her roses.  I tell her that frogs can taste that stuff and they'll avoid her garden if she keeps... More »

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Disappearing act

Posted on Aug 2nd, 2008 by Bird : Bird Bird

She stalks like a golden  tiger through the night eating twice her body weight in bugs.  Princess Grendel, my big eyed tree frog moves at impossible angles sticking to the glass while she hunts.  Her... More »

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... the contaminated foodstuff was tomatoes

Posted on Jun 19th, 2008 by Bird : Bird Bird

I googled Karen Lips and followed a trail soon arriving at the conclusion that the amphibian annihilation might have something to do with pesticides commony used in Spain.  I quickly found this piece and, of... More »

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...less understanding of the nonlethal effects of pesticides

Posted on Jun 19th, 2008 by Bird : Bird Bird

Oecologia (2007) 154:219–226 DOI 10.1007/s00442-007-0811-2123 GLOBAL CHANGE AND CONSERVATION ECOLOGY Pesticide alters oviposition site selection in gray treefrogs James R. Vonesh · Julia C. Buck Received: 28 March 2006 / Revised: 27 June 2007 /... More »

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published ... Pet Store Paradox

Posted on Jun 18th, 2008 by Bird : Bird Bird

Once a month, everything and everybody inside my aviary soaking wet with one turn of the faucet.  I push standing water down the drain and celebrate a single day of spotlessness.  Now, that's what I... More »

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fungus

Posted on Jun 6th, 2008 by Bird : Bird Bird

http://news.siu.edu/news/November07/112007tjc7118.jsp Lips wins NSF grant to continue frog research   Download Photo Here Caption follows story CARBONDALE, Ill. — Frogs eat bugs and snakes eat frogs. Everyone knows that. But what happens to the bugs... More »

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