MetaFilter posts tagged with frog

'Alien scene' of tadpoles' feast

longsleeves — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 22:43:08 -0800

"Mountain chickens have very peculiar breeding habits" "Alien-like" scenes of tadpoles feasting on eggs emerging from their mother have been caught on camera. The footage marks the success of a captive breeding programme for the critically endangered mountain chicken frog, one of the world's largest frogs. (BBC) Not for the easily squicked.

Wolverphibian!

never used baby shoes — Thu, 29 May 2008 12:55:26 -0800

A new study has found that 12 species of African frog have retractable claws. All twelve species are members of the Artholeptidae family, and should not be confused with the African clawed frog (Xenopus laevis). Full study here.(pdf)

This is a list of frogs.

bigmusic — Sat, 03 May 2008 00:55:56 -0800

This is a list of frogs. Look at pictures the frogs. Most importantly, listen (sounds like a fart) to (sounds like a baseball card in your bike tire) the (sounds like a sheep) frogs (classic frog sound). More pictures and sounds at the first link.

Hands across the water.

flapjax at midnite — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 18:29:16 -0800

What do you do when you're a Panamanian golden frog and you need to let that certain special someone across the way know you're, um, interested? Sure, you could croak a few sweet nothings in her ear, but those rushing jungle streams can drown out even the most virile of frog voices. So, you... wave! Yeah, give her a little wave! A BBC film crew has captured footage of this rare (and, according to their article, now extinct) amphibian waving, fighting and mating. [NOTE: last link includes hot froggy ménage à trois. Surely NSFW!] Here's a National Geographic documentary on earlier efforts to treat the Chytrid fungus-induced disease that has decimated the golden frog population.

Bake the Hall in the Candle of Her Brain

StopMakingSense — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 21:59:17 -0800

Jim Henson's The Frog Prince Also, related, but not really: Mary Martin's Peter Pan

i:wound

hama7 — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 20:06:56 -0800

i:wound

A Frog Too Far

Mil — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 18:00:27 -0800

MacRobertson's Confectionery were, in the 1930s, trialling new ideas for their children's range. An employee suggested that as "women and children were afraid of mice," rather than a chocolate mouse, a chocolate frog would be more popular with children. Three days later, what would become Australia's most popular children's confectionery, the Freddo Frog, was born. Its supposed creator, Harry Melbourne, died last week, having never received a cent in royalties. However, to this day there remains confusion as to whether he, or rather the inventor of the Cherry Ripe, Lesley Atkison, was in fact responsible. Those that only know him in chocolate form may be surprised to find out that Freddo was also the star of Australia's first cartoon.

A good match for the giant centipede!

darkripper — Sat, 13 Jan 2007 18:45:14 -0800

Bullfrog aren't selective eaters . They eat anything that they can swallow (including other bullfrogs). And remember, they are coming for YOU. Scary animals on Metafilter: Giant Amazonian Centipede, Snakehead, horrors from the abyss.

Pictures

dios — Mon, 27 Feb 2006 12:37:10 -0800

Pictures of a guy in a blue shirt. More Inside

Cueva del Fantasma

driveler — Wed, 22 Feb 2006 12:13:42 -0800

Researchers have discovered a cave so large two helicopters can comfortably land inside it and containing a new species of poison dart frog.

Indonesia - new species discovered

Protocols of the Elders of Awesome — Tue, 07 Feb 2006 05:16:20 -0800

"Lost World" found in Indonesian Papua (with audio)

Mine eats goatse... I mean ghosts!

shmegegge — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 20:45:02 -0800

The PacMan Frog! What is it about this most saffronly rotund of amphibians that has inspired so many hideous web sites? (Don't even bother clicking on this one. It goes right to a geocities site.) Perhaps it's their tendency to try to eat anything they could get their oversized mouths on. They are, in fact, so ready and willing to consume anything within biting distance that it is recommended that owners feed these frogs with spoons. Pac man frogs will tend to bite anything that moves. Never use you [sic] bare hands when feeding to avoid bites. Many frogs are killed when a hand is quickly drawn away from a bite and the horned frog is flung against a wall. This one, apparently, just put a bounty out on Han Solo.

Whether you love them or hate them, all pacman frog owners agree: there's no tidy way to wrap up a post about pacman frogs. (Warning: almost inhumanly annoying website behind link. embedded qt midi music (really, though. what if God WERE one of us?) and horrific purple color scheme.)

him name is hopkin green frog

vaportrail — Thu, 30 Jun 2005 23:56:11 -0800

Hopkin Green Frog sadly explained.

The return of the frog march.

insomnia_lj — Thu, 30 Jun 2005 11:42:26 -0800

Time to name names in Plame affair. Time Magazine has announced that they will hand over the full notes and emails of their reporter to federal investigators, revealing the identity of the White House official(s) who leaked the identity of Valerie Plame, a CIA officer. Will Joseph Wilson finally get his frog march?

Frog Craziness and the appeal of suicide

LondonYank — Sat, 28 May 2005 02:19:52 -0800

The Crazy Frog / Axel F Song (previously mentioned on the Blue) is about to make history by being the first ringtone / pop music crossover to successfully invade the British charts. How successful? A little band named Coldplay also have a new single out; as it stands, Crazy Frog is outselling their effort by a factor of 4 to 1. People, this is serious. Prepare for some major league irritation to descend upon us. The success of this single will only spawn a legion of imitators, and that can only lead to the dark side. As Malcolm McLaren, ex Sex Pistols manager puts it: "Listen to this song and you can hear the death knell of the traditional music industry."

A Ribbeting Story

azul — Sat, 06 Nov 2004 21:32:57 -0800

Hopkin Green Update. Last seen in this area.

him name is hopkin green frog

darukaru — Tue, 02 Nov 2004 13:03:45 -0800

ps. i'll find my frog

The frogs are fucked.

biffa — Fri, 15 Oct 2004 05:11:37 -0800

The frogs are in trouble. This might sound like good news for more right leaning brethren, but alas, the toads, newts and amphibians in general also look to be facing future problems. Up to a third of all species may face extinction. As ever, humanity looks to be the cause.

All About Frogs

hama7 — Sun, 04 Jul 2004 18:17:07 -0800

Frogland.