IN A RECENT GERMAN INTERVIEW, pop star Lady Gaga paid homage to her favorite fictional amphibian by sporting a jacket adorned with dozens of Kermits! If this isn’t frog fanaticism, we don’t know what is. (Watch the interview here.)
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PARTY ON, and thanks to the Missouri Department of Conservation for the video.
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WE’RE BECOMING BIG FANS of the online project asknature.org, from The Biomimicry Institute. It’s an enormous database all about our natural world with easy searching and great tidbits. For example, we learned just today that frogs actually propel themselves forward in water by creating a vortex with the force of their webbed feet. A vortex! All the science-y details are here.
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AND YOU THOUGHT the drama in New Jersey got ugly!
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DID YOU KNOW THAT the fragile Northern Leopard Frog (above) is under serious threat? We recently learned from the Wildlife Action Center that this beautiful species of amphibian, once prevalent throughout North America, “are put at an even greater risk by endosulfan–a deadly pesticide that’s been banned in at least sixty countries, but not in the U.S.” Thousands of concerned people signed this letter to let legislators know that the health risks to amphibians and humans caused by endosulfan are unacceptable. We await news of governmental response.
(photo by Sage)
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DO YOU REMEMBER THIS song from your elementary school days? We don’t know who (or where) these kids are, but we love seeing them sing about frogs (or not sing, like the little one second from left). In short: amphibians + kids = why not?
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YES, HE DOES HAVE some extra “padding,” but don’t tell him that. And heavens, don’t stare!
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MY, WHAT SCALY LIPS you have, Mr. Toad! Thanks to Flickr user ilovecoffeeyesido for snapping this handsome amphibian.
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UNBEKNOWNST TO US, there has been a great debate for some time now about the origins of mysterious frogs born without hind legs. Well thanks to some stealth camera moves by a man named Brendan Ballengee, this science mystery appears to be solved. Find out where these legless amphibians are coming from. (Psst, the weird photo above is your hint.)
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FROGBOY MAMA, Margaret Roach, caught two of her green frogs dueling over a ladyfrog this week! A full slideshow of the heavyweight match is now on A Way to Garden. Who won the title? You’ll have to take a peep at the action to find that one out.
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