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Now someone else is saying my frog looks like a Leopard frog!!! WHAT do I have!?

LadyV Jun 28, 2004 03:03 PM

I need to take cafe of this little fellow properly! Can anyone tell me what I have? There are two links below to a couple of "VERY" large links to look at him..
Thank you!

http://www.geocities.com/vatrovia/images/DSCF0177.JPG

http://www.geocities.com/vatrovia/images/DSCF0178.JPG

Replies (4)

Colchicine Jun 28, 2004 08:28 PM

A bit of advice when dealing with herps...
Most people who give unsolicited advice, don't know what the heck they are talking about!

There is no way to identify the frog from those photos (it would help if you cropped the picture down to only the frog)

The best way to tell the difference between bullfrogs and most others, is by the dorsolateral fold. This is a ridge that runs behind the eye down to the groin. Check out the web site below, there is only one bullfrog picture and you can clearly see that there is no dorsolateral fold, while the pictures of all the others have that distinctive ridge. In this does not do it for you, I strongly recommend getting a Peterson field guide, it contains illustrations that makes identification very easy.
Link

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LadyV Jun 28, 2004 08:56 PM

Thanks
Image

Colchicine Jun 29, 2004 06:38 AM

Looks like you may have lucked out, it definitely resembles a leopard frog!
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...the oldest task in human history: to live on a piece of land without spoiling it."
Aldo Leopold (1938)

"Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us."
Calvin and Hobbes (Scientific Progress Goes 'Boink', 1991)

LadyV Jun 29, 2004 09:33 AM

Are there different divisions of the Leopards? Do they all pretty much require the same care? If so...all I have to do is research....
Thanks a bunch guys! I had also posted to another "frog" forum and got either no responses or they sounded a bit on the "flippant' side.....thanks for being understanding to someone trying to learn.....

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