{"id":19864,"date":"2024-05-16T13:25:05","date_gmt":"2024-05-16T18:25:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/?p=19864"},"modified":"2024-05-16T13:25:08","modified_gmt":"2024-05-16T18:25:08","slug":"frog-blog-some-final-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/2024\/05\/16\/frog-blog-some-final-friends\/","title":{"rendered":"Frog Blog: Some Final Friends!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Frogbloginning (Frog-blog-beginning)\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The end of the school year is just around the corner, and thus, this is the last of my blog posts for the year. Of course I have to send this off with a final frog blog! I hope you enjoy these final friends. (Or at least final until next year.)<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Emei Moustache Toad<\/strong> <em>(Leptobrachium boringii)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-19888\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/57B427FB-E53F-4B70-B2B6-C780AAC476BD-300x245.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"245\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/57B427FB-E53F-4B70-B2B6-C780AAC476BD-300x245.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/57B427FB-E53F-4B70-B2B6-C780AAC476BD-1024x835.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/57B427FB-E53F-4B70-B2B6-C780AAC476BD-768x626.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/57B427FB-E53F-4B70-B2B6-C780AAC476BD-1536x1253.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/57B427FB-E53F-4B70-B2B6-C780AAC476BD-1200x979.jpeg 1200w, https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/57B427FB-E53F-4B70-B2B6-C780AAC476BD.jpeg 1686w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-19889\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/39BABAB7-8923-4DFB-ABD0-1017BC95E4CC-300x239.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"239\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/39BABAB7-8923-4DFB-ABD0-1017BC95E4CC-300x239.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/39BABAB7-8923-4DFB-ABD0-1017BC95E4CC.jpeg 621w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>(<a href=\"https:\/\/uk.inaturalist.org\/taxa\/65933-Leptobrachium-boringii\">Source<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>CHOCOLATE CHIP MOUSTACHE FROGS. (Every toad is a frog, but not every frog is a toad.) How could you not love these guys. They look so adorable with their fancy spiky faces and cat-like eyes. It&#8217;s actually only the males that grow these moustache spikes, and they do so during breeding season. They use their moustaches to battle! That&#8217;s right, I&#8217;m not calling them spikes just because they look like it- they&#8217;re actually spikes. Tough and stabby spikes. They&#8217;re absolutely wonderful!<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wallace&#8217;s Flying Frog<\/strong> <em>(Rhacophorus nigropalmatus)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-19890 size-medium alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/5F6A5C7B-B917-40AA-919C-8E9966E21283-300x132.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"132\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/5F6A5C7B-B917-40AA-919C-8E9966E21283-300x132.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/5F6A5C7B-B917-40AA-919C-8E9966E21283-1024x451.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/5F6A5C7B-B917-40AA-919C-8E9966E21283-768x338.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/5F6A5C7B-B917-40AA-919C-8E9966E21283.jpeg 1180w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-19891 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/A6D7FC5C-CF7F-4C8A-957E-6E7B18D1E8CE-300x200.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/A6D7FC5C-CF7F-4C8A-957E-6E7B18D1E8CE-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/A6D7FC5C-CF7F-4C8A-957E-6E7B18D1E8CE-1024x684.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/A6D7FC5C-CF7F-4C8A-957E-6E7B18D1E8CE-768x513.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/A6D7FC5C-CF7F-4C8A-957E-6E7B18D1E8CE.jpeg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>(<a href=\"https:\/\/animaldiversity.org\/accounts\/Rhacophorus_nigropalmatus\/\">Source<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>I am SO SUPRISED that I haven&#8217;t shown off these amazing guys yet! Flying frogs! Flying frogs! They sound super duper cool, and they look amazing! I really love the patterns on their webbing- it&#8217;s so distinctive. But, ahem, as one might expect, these frogs don&#8217;t actually fly like birds or bugs. Launching themselves from the trees they live in, Wallace&#8217;s Flying Frogs are able to glide up to 50ft to the forest floor. Incredible.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mutable Rain Frog\u00a0<\/strong><em>(Pristimantis mutabilis)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-19918\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/mutable-rainfrog-pristimantis-mutabilis-300x191.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"191\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/mutable-rainfrog-pristimantis-mutabilis-300x191.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/mutable-rainfrog-pristimantis-mutabilis-1024x653.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/mutable-rainfrog-pristimantis-mutabilis-768x490.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/mutable-rainfrog-pristimantis-mutabilis.jpg 1180w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-19921\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/150331203249-punk-rocker-frog-2-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/150331203249-punk-rocker-frog-2-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/150331203249-punk-rocker-frog-2-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/150331203249-punk-rocker-frog-2-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/150331203249-punk-rocker-frog-2-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/150331203249-punk-rocker-frog-2.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.calacademy.org\/explore-science\/shape-shifting-frogs?amp\">Source<\/a>) (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/amp\/ncna330061\">Source<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Relatively, this frog was actually discovered somewhat recently in 2009. The mutable rain frog is a super cool frog that is able to change the texture\/shape of its skin to match its surroundings. It reminds me a bit of an octopus because of it! And, if that somehow wasn&#8217;t cool enough, the original specimen was named &#8220;Punk Rocker&#8221; by the scientists who discovered it. A fittingly awesome name for an awesome frog.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong><span class=\"TextRun SCXW36755007 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW36755007 BCX0\">Frogblogending<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW36755007 BCX0\"> (Frog-blog-ending)<\/span><\/span><span class=\"EOP SCXW36755007 BCX0\" data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s it for now, but don&#8217;t forget that there are plenty of frogs to discover! May the frogs be plentiful and eternal, and goodbye!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frogbloginning (Frog-blog-beginning)\u00a0 The end of the school year is just around the corner, and thus, this is the last of my blog posts for the year. Of course I have to send this off with a final frog blog! I hope you enjoy these final friends. (Or at least final until next year.) \u00a0 Emei &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/2024\/05\/16\/frog-blog-some-final-friends\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Frog Blog: Some Final Friends!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19864"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/88"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19864"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19925,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19864\/revisions\/19925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}