Monday, May 4, 2009

Late-Night Herping Round 3


This is my final post herpers. I'm sorry. It's me, not you. That same night in Hueston Woods in the flooded field/swamp, we caught a northern cricket frog (Acris crepitans). The call of a cricket frog is the percussion of our phenom call band as it sounds like pebbles being clicked together. The cricket frog can range from .75-1.5 inches long, has random blotching patterns of brown/green/gray, and has a long, slender snout. Their diet consists of insects and they are capable of jumping over 6 ft in the air to avoid predators! This cricket frog was caught on a piece of vegetation sitting on top of a muddy bank. It blended in with the environment quite well. Once again, this is our TA trying to strangle an innocent creature. Please help us.... He threatens us all the time and says we have no future. Do you kids at College of Charleston deal with this? I think not. You guys are too concerned with your warm weather and beaches. Take it easy herpers. Stay strong.

Sean Brimacombe
Miami University

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Herpetology Class said...

Sean this is by far my favorite post ever.... poor Andrew is going to butcher your paper lol

Em