Caribbean Frogs Started With A Single, Ancient Voyage On A Raft From South America

Science Daily ^ | 6-7-2007 | Penn State

[blam]

GGG Ping?

[gas0linealley]

“Scientists believe that the raft was held together with ribets.”

[Old Sarge]

So, even the frogs are trying to get here illegally!

DEPORT THE FROGS NOW!!!

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[MrEdd]

I think they were carried by swallows

[JRios1968]

The Puerto Rican Coqui Frog, so called for its peculiar sound "coh-kee!!!"

[PJ-Comix]

The Coqui frogs are the symbol of PR. I remember them from when I was a kid. They actually do sound like they are saying: “CO-QUI! CO-QUI!”

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Blam! Definitely GGG.

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[Sam Ketcham]

I was RIVITed

[wildbill]

In the Virgin Islands, they’re called Cokis and the damn tiny things are so loud at night that they keep the jungle noisy and awake all night.

[JRios1968]

I know...I grew up in PR...I miss the sound.

[Fred Nerks]

It is not likely that the frog species dispersed simply by swimming because frogs dry easily and are not very tolerant of salt water...

they must have read Kon-Tiki!

[wildbill]

do you know how they all stop croaking at the same time and what causes it? It’s weird.

[SunkenCiv]

The mystery — how these frogs built a raft — remains.

[Fred Nerks]

The Kon-Tiki raft had an interesting stow-away:

Every man who came on watch had a scrap of biscuit or a bit of fish for Johannes, and we only needed to stoop down over the hole for him to come right out on his doorstep and stretch out his hands. He took scraps out of our fingers with his claws and ran back into the hole, where he sat down in the doorway and munched like a schoolboy cramming his food into his mouth...

[SunkenCiv]

If memory serves, poor Johannes wound up vanishing in a windstorm.

[Fred Nerks]

Poor Johannes...but if he and a lady-friend had made it, they could have established a new colony in the Pacific...and his progeny might have been the subject of a scientific study.

[Fred Nerks]

whoops! All that fuss about a pic of a crab...

[Fred Nerks]

he's a survivor, hopped along the green line.