Wednesday, December 19, 2007


Thsi photo was taken on a nightwalk in December 2007. It is a great view of a common frog at Cape Tribulation, The White Lipped Green Tree Frog. These frogs live througout the forest, but migrate to coastal swaps to breed when the heavy rains fill the swamps.
Their calls are loud, from a distance it sounds like millions of aboriginal clicking sticks, closer it is a distict brack-ack, brack-ack.
Only the males call, and the calls are dual purpose, to repel other males and attract females. Apparently the females can select the best male frog from the calls. In my opinion these are the most spectacular frog we have here, and I never get tired of looking at them.

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