There's always one in the back row
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@Catseye3 said in There's always one in the back row:
They are too cute for words. Even the juvenile delinquent in the back row.
They are so darn funny! They crack me up pretty much every day with something.
One of them is just like a little puppy when I'm near their house. It comes to the screen and leans waaaaay out on one of the horizontal bands of the trellis trying to get my attention. If it's on the floor of the froggo house, it leaps up repeatedly, trying to get my attention. So I open the screen and put my hand and arm inside their house, and it jumps into my hand, crawls quickly up my arm, and waits for me to talk to it and give some loves
.It cracks me up every time. A tiny frog puppy!
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I just love that guy's expression.
@Doctor-Phibes said in There's always one in the back row:
I just love that guy's expression.
You probably know someone just like that.
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@Jolly said in There's always one in the back row:
Looks like he had a ribbiting night, last night....
Speaking of speaking, one of them made a squeaky noise yesterday when they got their shower. They love a shower! I spritz them very gently with their treated water from a squirt bottle. They really enjoyed a shower during the heat yesterday.
Since they're less than a year old, the males don't trill yet, but they are starting to get their voices. Even females can make a bit of a squeak. Tree frogs don't ribbit like water frogs, instead they trill.
I miss having Jurgi trill from the trellis behind my porch chair. He's currently across the street at the church retention pond looking for t3h wimminz. In a couple weeks, he might come back here. Fingers crossed that he does. I hope the wimminz come with him.
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@Doctor-Phibes said in There's always one in the back row:
I just love that guy's expression.
Looks like he’s thinking about how awesome it will be for him when he flips the leaf and they all fall off.
@Loki said in There's always one in the back row:
@Doctor-Phibes said in There's always one in the back row:
I just love that guy's expression.
Looks like he’s thinking about how awesome it will be for him when he flips the leaf and they all fall off.
A froggie can dream up all kinds of mischief.
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@Jolly said in There's always one in the back row:
Looks like he had a ribbiting night, last night....
Speaking of speaking, one of them made a squeaky noise yesterday when they got their shower. They love a shower! I spritz them very gently with their treated water from a squirt bottle. They really enjoyed a shower during the heat yesterday.
Since they're less than a year old, the males don't trill yet, but they are starting to get their voices. Even females can make a bit of a squeak. Tree frogs don't ribbit like water frogs, instead they trill.
I miss having Jurgi trill from the trellis behind my porch chair. He's currently across the street at the church retention pond looking for t3h wimminz. In a couple weeks, he might come back here. Fingers crossed that he does. I hope the wimminz come with him.
@brenda said in There's always one in the back row:
I miss having Jurgi trill from the trellis behind my porch chair. He's currently across the street at the church retention pond looking for t3h wimminz.
Maybe a dumb question, but how do you know this? How do you know where he is? Can you differentiate him from all the other frogs?
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@brenda said in There's always one in the back row:
I miss having Jurgi trill from the trellis behind my porch chair. He's currently across the street at the church retention pond looking for t3h wimminz.
Maybe a dumb question, but how do you know this? How do you know where he is? Can you differentiate him from all the other frogs?
@Catseye3 said in There's always one in the back row:
@brenda said in There's always one in the back row:
I miss having Jurgi trill from the trellis behind my porch chair. He's currently across the street at the church retention pond looking for t3h wimminz.
Maybe a dumb question, but how do you know this? How do you know where he is? Can you differentiate him from all the other frogs?
Yes, it's possible to differentiate which frog has a certain trill or song
. Every male's trill is different from the others. He has to make his special to win the hearts 
of t3h wimminz, so differentiation is key to being the winning Romeo.I've had the opportunity to listen to Jurgi trill for me during the times before and after mating season. He does it in the mornings and afternoons, especially when he hears certain sounds in the neighborhood. Sometimes it's just completely out of the blue. I think he likes the attention of having me reply. It keeps his trill in shape for the rest of the season, in case one of t3h wimminz happens to need him.
One evening last year, Emmie was walking across the porch looking rather bloated. She basically told Jurgi to get his butt down to the mini pond beside the porch. Sure enough, the next morning there was a pile of eggs in there, and later tadpoles.
Let that be a lesson, fellas. Ya gotta keep trilling t3h wimminz.
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Cats, to finish answering your questions, yes, I know where he is by the sound of his trilling in the evening. He's across the street at the far end of the church's retention pond, and he's up in a very large old oak in the first crotch of the tree.
The males are in various places around the pond, not always at the edge like I would have thought. I don't know how the females signal to a specific male that he's her Romeo, nor how they make arrangements to meet at the pond.
I have heard of male froggie interlopers, ones who sneak over to the pond to meet with the female before the selected Romeo, and take advantage of the situation. Such cads!!
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Very cool stuff @brenda
