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Post by rowanberry on Jun 2, 2015 17:00:18 GMT
I was interested to see how many different colours the frogs in the pond were today- ranging from reddish to yellow ochre to almost black. Do their pigmentations have to do with camouflage, or is it simply an inherited thing?  |
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Post by shirl100 on Jun 2, 2015 18:12:33 GMT
I am not an expert but I think they can lighten and darken their colour depending on their surroundings, I saw 2 on a water vole survey last week and both were darkish brown
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Post by rowanberry on Jun 3, 2015 20:16:27 GMT
With all that duckweed, you think I'd get a few green ones!  I had a frog calendar a few years ago, and the range of colours, (especially among the exotic tropical frogs) was amazing. |
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Post by NellyDee on Jul 9, 2015 10:23:32 GMT
I am just delight that there are a few frogs here, spawn having been frozen, then dried out - weather! So far seen 3 one almost black, one brown and this multi coloured fellow - may look big in the photos but only about 2cm body length - all three were tiny
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Post by Tringa on Jul 9, 2015 18:18:52 GMT
Almost all my knowledge of frog colour comes from London and in the pond we have had at lot of, 'bog standard' olivey/greenish ones, some brownish jobs, very few brighter green ones and a fair number of reddish one. The red ones I think were suffering from some form of frog disease.
Unfortunately I cannot help with why frogs are different colours .
Dave
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