Froggo thread for Brenda (and other amphibiophiles)

[Mik]

From Ohio State Parks:

Since our followers here are all outdoors and nature lovers, we wanted to share this find which we posted on our Ohio Division of Wildlife and Ohio Department of Natural Resources pages. How cool is this!

These photos were courtesy of Matt Minnich who was especially lucky to encounter a blue bullfrog recently. This rarity (some sources say it's one in a million) occurs when the frogs yellow pigment is missing. Remember mixing colors in school? Yellow and blue make green. Even in frogs!

Deeper dive:
This blue bullfrog was found in western Ohio. The frog has axanthism, a mutation that interferes with an animal's ability to produce yellow pigment. This mutation has been discovered in 23 amphibian species, mostly in the family Ranidae, the true frogs.

[Horace]

I hope Pepe the blue frog doesn't become the mascot for Blue Lives Matter.

[Doctor Phibes]

That looks like the kind of thing that gets licked in South American jungles just before everybody mysteriously goes AWOL.

As an aside, I wonder who it was that first thought "I wonder what would happen if I licked this frog?"

[Horace]

Probably just prelude to eating them, at the time.

[brenda]

That's quite pretty. I bet some exotic frog breeder would like to try producing more of those. There are people who collect unique frogs.

I can be happy with ordinary gray tree frogs.