Amphibian migration season is coming this spring. Remember to drive slow!
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I had a new "oh, my family were the weird ones" moment recently: it seems no one else's family celebrated Frog Night (the first warm rainy night of spring) by going down to the local vernal pool after dark to help the amphibians safely across the road and listening to the spring peepers. (We'd then go back in daytime later on to observe the egg masses, of course.)
Apparently "Frog Night" as a holiday is a thing my mother invented and not a widely-accepted idea, which is a shame because I've been referring to it as if it was for the past 30 years.
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São Tomé Caecilian (Schistometopum thomense), family Dermophiidae, endemic to São Tomé and Ilhéu das Rolas (Africa)
photographs by m_burger
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Berry, the squishy pink salamander-caterpillar thing.
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"Various urodele amphbians, not all to the same scale." The life of vertebrates. 1962.
Internet Archive
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Robust Climbing Salamander (Bolitoglossa robusta), family Plethodontidae, Tapanti National Park, Costa Rica
Photograph by Piotr Naskrecki
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Big day for nerds and frog enjoyers, get a load of this new chunk: Hyloscirtus tolkieni
(Article has a few more photos)
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Vintage newspaper article
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