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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
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 Posted - 07/07/2006 : 17:52:56
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This photo, from National Geographic, for our "A-ah-h/cute" category:
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July 5, 2006
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Photographed Friday in the northern Indian city of Lucknow ..., a mouse perches on a frog in waist-deep (for a frog, anyway) floodwaters—a small sign of the early arrival of annual summer monsoon rains.
So far, more than 30 people have died in India as a result of this year's monsoon-driven landslides and floods. Last year's deluge killed some 1,000 people in the financial center of Mumbai (Bombay) alone. Today polluted, knee-deep waters are raising fears of a repeat disaster among the city's roughly 17 million inhabitants.
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It strikes me that Lucknow has an ironic name. The article is found here.
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Edited by - HalfMooner on 07/07/2006 17:54:12
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 07/07/2006 : 22:07:49 [Permalink]
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Or is National Geographic wrong? Isn't that a toad? Filthy?
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Siberia
SFN Addict
Brazil
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Posted - 07/08/2006 : 07:56:43 [Permalink]
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| That's a toad and awwwwww so cuuuuuuuuuuute...! |
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Randy
SFN Regular
USA
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Posted - 07/08/2006 : 08:32:14 [Permalink]
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Whow knows?.... just a moment's photo capture -- only the photographer knows for sure; perhaps a second later, the mouse is froggy's lunch.
Ribit, Ribit!
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Dave W.
Info Junkie
USA
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Posted - 07/08/2006 : 20:03:55 [Permalink]
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[Hijack]quote:
Originally posted by Randy
Ribit, Ribit!
So this chicken walks into a library, goes up to the front desk and says, "booooook!"
The librarian gives the chicken a book, and the chicken walks out.
The next day, the chicken walks into the library again, and says, "boooook, book!"
The librarian gives the chicken two books, and the chicken leaves again.
The next day, the chicken walks into the library again, and says, "book, book, boooooook!"
The librarian gives the chicken three books, and the chicken leaves. The chicken walks across the road to a park with a pond, and presents the three books to a frog.
The frog looks at the books and says, "readit, readit, readit."
And now, back to the amazing mouse-on-toad action...
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
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Posted - 07/09/2006 : 03:02:38 [Permalink]
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quote:
Originally posted by HalfMooner
Or is National Geographic wrong? Isn't that a toad? Filthy?
I will tentatively say; 'frog,' and qualify the statement by how little I know about Indian species. The photograph, whilst heart-warming and disgustingly cute, is not all that well detailed and the glands found on the sides of a toad's head, if there, aren't visible. What might be the gland looks to me to be the tympanum. Many frogs have a toad's over-all conformation to some degree.
I wonder if the mouse escaped. His ride certainly looks large enough to scarf him up, and, being an adorable, little froggy (or toady), would at first opportunity.
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 07/09/2006 : 04:36:39 [Permalink]
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I would hope, from the mouse's viewpoint, that it's wise enough to keep a good grip on the frog's back. At least the frog doesn't have a neck, and can't reach around to gobble. Or do frogs have other tricks in this situation? Such as charging an exorbitant fare at the end of the ride?
What's the deal with the toad glads, Filthy? I guess the "wartiness" of the amphibian's skin and its general stoutness does not a toad make? That's all I'd ever noticed.
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
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Posted - 07/09/2006 : 09:13:38 [Permalink]
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quote:
Originally posted by HalfMooner
I would hope, from the mouse's viewpoint, that it's wise enough to keep a good grip on the frog's back. At least the frog doesn't have a neck, and can't reach around to gobble. Or do frogs have other tricks in this situation? Such as charging an exorbitant fare at the end of the ride?
What's the deal with the toad glads, Filthy? I guess the "wartiness" of the amphibian's skin and its general stoutness does not a toad make? That's all I'd ever noticed.
I am still not at all certain about this animal. I look for the parotid glands located on the toads head to make the call. I can't see them in this picture, but there is a possibility that mouse is covering them.
"Toad" is a pretty general term, at least by my definition. African clawed toads kept by aquarists are really aquatic frogs as is the Surniam toad. The extermely toadish tomato frog is indeed, a frog.
I figger that if its the parotids, it's a toad -- otherwise: frog. Some agree with that and some don't, and frogs and the closely related toads are an amazing family.
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