{"id":529,"date":"2013-07-27T15:46:43","date_gmt":"2013-07-27T05:46:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/froggingaround.com\/blog\/?p=529"},"modified":"2013-07-27T16:05:32","modified_gmt":"2013-07-27T06:05:32","slug":"unfortunate-fate-but-unique-opportunity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/froggingaround.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/unfortunate-fate-but-unique-opportunity\/","title":{"rendered":"Unfortunate fate but unique opportunity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whilst weeding around our pond in the front yard, I discovered a poor frog who it seems couldn&#8217;t climb out of a small pond we have off the main pond. Drowning also appears to have been the fate of a juvenile cane toad <!--more-->I found a few weeks ago. There are now plenty of access routes out of this particular pond! Lesson learnt.<\/p>\n<p>So anyways, I sought the opportunity to photograph the Tusked Frog (<i>Adelotus brevis<\/i>), paying particular attention to it&#8217;s unique identification marks that are used to tell it apart from a small cane toad. Tusked frogs are classified as rare, but they&#8217;re often heard and found in backyards providing there is a pond, or water-filled depression.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_530\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-530\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/froggingaround.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/a_brevis_stomach_1_27.7.13.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-530\" alt=\"Tusked frog underneath view\" src=\"http:\/\/froggingaround.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/a_brevis_stomach_1_27.7.13.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/froggingaround.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/a_brevis_stomach_1_27.7.13.jpg 600w, https:\/\/froggingaround.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/a_brevis_stomach_1_27.7.13-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-530\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tusked frog (<i>Adelotus brevis<\/i>). Notice the red patches and marbled stomach pattern characteristic of this species.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_532\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-532\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/froggingaround.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/a_brevis_side_1_27.7.13.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-532\" alt=\"Tusked frog side view\" src=\"http:\/\/froggingaround.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/a_brevis_side_1_27.7.13.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/froggingaround.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/a_brevis_side_1_27.7.13.jpg 600w, https:\/\/froggingaround.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/a_brevis_side_1_27.7.13-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-532\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tusked frog (<i>Adelotus brevis<\/i>). Notice the red patches and marbled stomach pattern characteristic of this species.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_531\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-531\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/froggingaround.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/a_brevis_back_1_27.7.13.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-531\" alt=\"Tusked frog top view\" src=\"http:\/\/froggingaround.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/a_brevis_back_1_27.7.13.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/froggingaround.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/a_brevis_back_1_27.7.13.jpg 600w, https:\/\/froggingaround.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/a_brevis_back_1_27.7.13-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-531\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tusked frog (<i>Adelotus brevis<\/i>). Notice the butterfly shaped dark patch above the head characteristic of this species.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This little fella is now chillin&#8217; in our freezer (Mum doesn&#8217;t yet know) before travelling to the University of the Sunshine Coast for preparation and display for undergraduates to learn from.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whilst weeding around our pond in the front yard, I discovered a poor frog who it seems couldn&#8217;t climb out[&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[59,63,62,8,60,61],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/froggingaround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529"}],"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=529"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/froggingaround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":537,"href":"https:\/\/froggingaround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529\/revisions\/537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/froggingaround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froggingaround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froggingaround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}