Saturday night as I was cleaning something in the kitchen I heard a yelp from the living room which by now (after the giant spider invasion) I knew meant something scary was in the house. But before I could even get to the living room (not even 5 feet away) there was a second yelp. I noticed this time that there was a lack of panic in the yelp and more excitement. As I entered the living room I witnessed my wife hop as she let out another yelp/squeal, this time even more excitement and no panic at all. Looking down I saw a small brown blob, it hopped and my wife hopped. I couldn't help but laugh. This little brown frog had managed to find its way into our home and was hopping slowly across the living room, followed closely by my squealing hopping wife.
Being in the tropics neither of us had any idea if the frog was poisonous or not, many of the cool looking tree frogs have very poisonous skin. With this in mind I retrieved a freshly washed Tupperware container and handed it to a very excited Megan, (see below).
Tupperware in hand Megan proceeded to chase the frog around the TV, between the chair and eventually into the container. I took a couple shots of this in progress but it turns out that 75% of the photo is just showing a glorious view of Megan's rear end. Seeing as posting this would cause a bit of a ruckus in our house, so I opted to leave that one out. Needless to say Megan thought the little frog was quite adorable and in her "its' the cuties thing in the world" voice she praised the little wet frog.
We both thought it would be fun to have him as a pet but seeing as we were lacking a cage (other then the Tupperware I’d rather be using for leftovers), food, and a pet store which might have any of this stuff we just let the idea go and Megan gracefully flung him back into the wild... aka the grass outside our apartment.
Curious about what kind of frog this was I did a Google search on Grenada Frog... and low and behold this little guy is a Whistling Tree Frog, aka West Indian Tree Frog. We have been hearing this chirping like noise every night we've been here and assumed it was bugs. Take a listen at the following website, below the photo is a button to hear its whistle. Now when listening, imagine that noise times about 300 and that's what we sleep with along with the crickets and these awfully annoying birds which screech randomly.
http://pictures.gjerdes.com/frog.html
Now that we know that annoying noise is also responsible for keeping the mosquito population in check we aren't near as bothered by it.
1 comment:
Very cool story and lil' froggie. I had tried tracking down, unsuccessfully, the spider from a couple posts ago, but couldn't find out what he was. Neat to know you were able to identify this little guy. Cool sounding!
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