Ribbit

[dar_jeeling]

As you might have noticed (or not), I'm very much with the not posting lately, but how can I not share these?





No frogs toads (!) were harmed in the making of this post. :D

Comments

[aurora]

Argh, it looks so slimy! *is kinda afraid of reptiles*

As you might have noticed (or not), I'm very much with the not posting lately
Hah, yes, I was just about to nudge you. :)

[dar-jeeling.livejournal.com]

Dude, a frog is not a reptile! But yeah, they are kind of squishy. And very light. :D

[aurora]

*headdesk* I mean amphibian. *fails at biology*

They come in pretty colours, though.

[dar-jeeling.livejournal.com]

;)

I have more pictures! There was one dark-ish green frog...looked kind of like...a pickle.

[pentapus.livejournal.com]

I love amphibians--and reptiles! Ooh, he is so neat looking, and with eyes worthy of a CG monster in a big budget film.

[dar-jeeling.livejournal.com]

I like the eyes in the first one where the sun gives it that extra mad glint. *g*

[http://users.livejournal.com/_inbetween_/]

Indeed.

... and you hug him and pet him and call him George.

[dar-jeeling.livejournal.com]

We called it Bob, actually. :D

he's so squashy and soft looking!

[kormantic.livejournal.com]

Yay!

Re: he's so squashy and soft looking!

[dar-jeeling.livejournal.com]

When it wanted back in the water (Well. I guess that's what it wanted. *g*), it made this sad, little squawky sound.

[enname.livejournal.com]

Awwwwwwwwwwww froggy.

Did you get a prince?

:P

Yes.. and my daily spam is no longer here *sniff*

[dar-jeeling.livejournal.com]

Innit cute? There were dozens of them! Also, dozens of little kiddies who were all delighted. (Yes, you could distinguish me from the five years old. I'm kinda...taller.)

[monanotlisa.livejournal.com]

Not a frog! It's a toad. & :-)

[dar-jeeling.livejournal.com]

How can you tell, omg? It has a narrow body! It was all wet! (From...uh, the water, I guess.)

Okay, my research was limited to googling pictures of frogs and toads before I posted this, but it looked a lot more like the frog pictures! (And also not like toads I've seen before.)

Tell meeeee.

[monanotlisa.livejournal.com]

Google is populated by idjits who wouldn't know a frog from a moose if the latter turned over their car.

Okay, fine, maybe THEN.

Frogs don't have warts, frogs are slime-slippery (not just wet; that's from the water), frogs don't have the ridges behind their eyes that you can see quite clearly in your pic, and ooh, look, I found this:

http://www.froschnetz.ch/forum/stimmt-das-unterschied-frosch-kroete-t1.html

[dar-jeeling.livejournal.com]

Ohhhhh! So the ridges are a more or less definite sign? Coolness, thank you! *beams*

[monanotlisa.livejournal.com]

As someone who has spent her childhood in wet meadows with Keschern -- I'm pretty sure this is a young toad or something in that direction, anyway: the warts and the eye-ridges and the presence of slime are pretty definite, AFAIK.

& :-)