{"id":242,"date":"2012-12-24T18:19:28","date_gmt":"2012-12-24T08:19:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/froggingaround.com\/blog\/?p=242"},"modified":"2012-12-24T18:19:28","modified_gmt":"2012-12-24T08:19:28","slug":"frogs-n-turtles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/froggingaround.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/frogs-n-turtles\/","title":{"rendered":"Frogs &#8216;n turtles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Unfortunately Google&#8217;s cache hasn&#8217;t made a copy of my most recent post, &#8216;Frogs &#8216;n turtles&#8217;, so I&#8217;ve got to start from scratch. So, here&#8217;s the short and sharp version of the original post.<\/p>\n<p>So here is that &#8216;collective&#8217; post I was going to blog. Continuing on with my two work placements, I&#8217;ve had some pretty cool opportunities to experience and learn things I wouldn&#8217;t have anyway. The majority of the following photos come from my time with the MRCCC. I was also fortunate to join Dale Watson (MRCCC) and Marilyn Connell (Tiaro Landcare) for a day out &#8216;turtling&#8217; on the banks of the Mary River. We were fortunate to see several of the endangered <i>Elusor macrurus<\/i> (Mary River Turtles) which only live in the Mary River.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_218\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-218\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/froggingaround.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/l_fallax_4.12.121.jpg\" alt=\"Litoria fallax\" width=\"600\" height=\"402\" class=\"size-full wp-image-218\" srcset=\"https:\/\/froggingaround.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/l_fallax_4.12.121.jpg 600w, https:\/\/froggingaround.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/l_fallax_4.12.121-300x201.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-218\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><i>Litoria fallax<\/i> (Eastern sedgefrogs). The larger frog is likely to be the female.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_217\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-217\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/froggingaround.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/m_fasciolatus_4.12.121.jpg\" alt=\"Mixophyes fasciolatus\" width=\"600\" height=\"402\" class=\"size-full wp-image-217\" srcset=\"https:\/\/froggingaround.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/m_fasciolatus_4.12.121.jpg 600w, https:\/\/froggingaround.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/m_fasciolatus_4.12.121-300x201.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-217\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><i>Mixophyes fasciolatus<\/i> (Great Barred Frog)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_216\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-216\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/froggingaround.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/lit_peronii_4.12.121.jpg\" alt=\"Litoria peronii\" width=\"600\" height=\"402\" class=\"size-full wp-image-216\" srcset=\"https:\/\/froggingaround.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/lit_peronii_4.12.121.jpg 600w, https:\/\/froggingaround.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/lit_peronii_4.12.121-300x201.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-216\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><i>Litoria peronii<\/i> (Emerald-spotted treefrog)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_225\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-225\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/froggingaround.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/l_wilcoxii_17.12.12.jpg\" alt=\"Litoria wilcoxii\" width=\"600\" height=\"402\" class=\"size-full wp-image-225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/froggingaround.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/l_wilcoxii_17.12.12.jpg 600w, https:\/\/froggingaround.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/l_wilcoxii_17.12.12-300x201.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-225\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><i>Litoria wilcoxii<\/i> (Stony-creek frogs) in amplexus.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_219\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-219\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/froggingaround.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/jono_crawling_4.12.121.jpg\" alt=\"Me crawling\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" class=\"size-full wp-image-219\" srcset=\"https:\/\/froggingaround.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/jono_crawling_4.12.121.jpg 600w, https:\/\/froggingaround.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/jono_crawling_4.12.121-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-219\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Me crawling through the scrub and flood debris. This was one of the easier places to get buy.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_238\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-238\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/froggingaround.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/emydura_krefftii_14.12.121.jpg\" alt=\"Chelymys krefftii\" width=\"600\" height=\"402\" class=\"size-full wp-image-238\" srcset=\"https:\/\/froggingaround.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/emydura_krefftii_14.12.121.jpg 600w, https:\/\/froggingaround.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/emydura_krefftii_14.12.121-300x201.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-238\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><i>Chelymys krefftii<\/i> (Krefft&#8217;s Turtle), our first sighting of the morning.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_237\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-237\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/froggingaround.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/elusor_macrurus_1_14.12.121.jpg\" alt=\"Elusor macrurus\" width=\"600\" height=\"402\" class=\"size-full wp-image-237\" srcset=\"https:\/\/froggingaround.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/elusor_macrurus_1_14.12.121.jpg 600w, https:\/\/froggingaround.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/elusor_macrurus_1_14.12.121-300x201.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-237\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><i>Elusor macrurus<\/i> (Mary River Turtles) with a water dragon poking his head up in the background. Can you see the second turtle?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_236\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-236\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/froggingaround.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/elusor_macrurus_2_14.12.121.jpg\" alt=\"Elusor macrurus\" width=\"600\" height=\"402\" class=\"size-full wp-image-236\" srcset=\"https:\/\/froggingaround.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/elusor_macrurus_2_14.12.121.jpg 600w, https:\/\/froggingaround.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/elusor_macrurus_2_14.12.121-300x201.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-236\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><i>Elusor macrurus<\/i> (Mary River Turtle)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unfortunately Google&#8217;s cache hasn&#8217;t made a copy of my most recent post, &#8216;Frogs &#8216;n turtles&#8217;, so I&#8217;ve got to start[&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/froggingaround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/froggingaround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/froggingaround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froggingaround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froggingaround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/froggingaround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":245,"href":"https:\/\/froggingaround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242\/revisions\/245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/froggingaround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froggingaround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froggingaround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}