Sometimes the animal world throws you a curve ball. It happened to me the other day while I was traipsing through the woods. I was in the market for a large animal to counter-balance some of the insects and smaller creatures we have been seeing lately. Instead I met this little guy. His size protects him from many predators. Fortunately I have the eyes of an eagle (literally.)
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You son of a bitch. I thought my World's Smallest Frog Photo record would stand for at last the year.
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My friend, I am sorry. My toad is smaller. Still, yours appears to have awesome leopard spots. Mine is a rather common shade of brown. Kudos on the find!
As a small child, I referred to these minuscule amphibians as "penny frogs." I'm still not sure of the validity of this term. I fondly remember loading frogs similar to yours into small toy trucks and nudging them down my slide in the backyard. The looks on the faces of those tiny frogs were priceless. The frogs seemed to express that difficult-to-describe emotion somewhere between terror and excitement, similar to the young men and women in Mountain Dew commercial advertisements.
I'll bet it still peed on your hand. Is that a baby "penny frog" as "tcr" referred to it, or is this in fact an adult?
This reminds me of the unintentional slaughter of hundreds of tiny frogs in the summer of 1999. We experienced a frog invasion of biblical perportions that year, and some of the hardest hit parts of the city were the puplic pools. I had taken to swimming laps every morning at Dick Nichols park. One morning the entrace to the pool area was carpeted with tiny frogs. The choice was this: Enter the pool area, knowing there is no way to do this without stepping on and killing dozens of tiny frogs with a sickening crunch OR go back home and give up on the swimming all together. I'm ashamed to say I continued on through the feild of frogs, killing dozens to swim my morning laps. Even today I am haunted by my actions.
A chilling tale if every I heard one. You may need to seek counselign to overcome your guilt.
Has the eagle you traded eyes with developed a moral value structure or is it too top heavy?
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