What a catch, errie

Kent Ridge Park
Date: 7 February, 2009
Time Hour 2005 to 2105

Dr.Bickford, Sam, Lainie, Alicia

I had my first frogging for the project and it was splendid.
We saw a total of 36 individuals.
Most of them were Rana erythraeas (Common greenback), one Kaloula pulchra (Kaloula pulchra), which was hanging dearly to its dear life on a huge leaf, one Rana limnocharis, one Rana catesbeiana (American bullfrog-exotic species which is a threat to the native ones, it was a juvenile though), and 2 Polypedates leucomystax (common tree frog),

Shifting from a urban area (NUS Kent Ridge Campus) to Kent Ridge Park (a secondary forest),
it was almost a cultural shock for me,
the number of frogs i saw that night( that hour) was almost all i got for my whole project in Year 1,
And all i got a year ago was only Bufo melanostictus (Asian toads), Kaloula pulchra (banded bullfrogs) and 4 precious Polypedates leucomystax (Common treefrog)

Dr. Bickford told me some stuff, about the dos and donts for frogging,
1) The most important thing is the frogs' safety
2) Close in second comes the data (get an umbrella for the data recorder)
3) Try to put the frog/toad back as soon as we are done meddling with it, and at the spot we found it

and i think i sound sick but Rana erythraea perfume smells good.

Ok, i think UROPS was never a mistake.


Photo credits : http://gutt.sg.free.fr/

A Rana erythraea

Who can have monday blues when Sunday night was spent frogging?

alicia