CA: Frog photos make big splash in Half Moon Bay (red-legged frog)

Mercury News ^ | 10/09/04 | Renee Koury

[HolgerDansk]

...oh, and did I mention that cold-blooded reptiles like salamanders like to rest on steel rails, since it helps them regulate their body heat?

[newzjunkey]

MMMmmmm TASTY!

[newzjunkey]

endangered San Francisco garter snake

ARE YOU KIDDING ME??

I wouldn't be surprised at all that this "frog" is a plant.

[Navy Patriot]

Environazis would never plant frogs, or lynx hair, or eagle feathers, or harvest mice, or snail darters or pike. Nor would they ever lie about spotted owl, or fuel load. They are too ethical.

Oh yes, and those fires they started, that was accidental.

[EggsAckley]

LOL!!

That wouldn't be one of them "Freudian Slips" would it?

Heheheh.

[Phsstpok]

:-) smack laps ... !!!

uhh,, lips :-)

I don't know about Piggy (Frank Oz), but I knew the lady who performed Spamela Hamderson (the busty pig on the baywatch skits on Muppets Tonight) and she would have shown that little froggy a thing or two.

[Probus]

Kalifornia has their frogs, we in WY have our wolves and grizzlies. It's all B.S.

Here is a concept many cannot grasp: "It's just a freakin' frog/bear/wolf/toad/plant/mouse, whatever."

[AF68]

In my neck of the woods, the environazis tried to stop a DNR shooting range because the noise would disturb a "rare" salamander species a nearby pond. Nevermind that the salamander was quite common in the area and they can't hear anyway.

[M-cubed]

speaking of lip smackers...brigs to mind yet another endandered species...The Red-headed double-breasted matress-thrasher...Ive been secretly protecting them most of my life!

[Syncro]

Bear with me here...

[midwyf]

Yeah, but at least they don't have to put special fences around the school yards to keep the stupid frogs out.

[farmfriend]

Rights, farms, environment ping.
Let me know if you wish to be added or removed from this list.
I don't get offended if you want to be removed.

[backhoe]

I'll be lurking on dialup until Bellsouth clears the line/dsl problems we're having. Until then, consider me a Silent Key.

[farmfriend]

Until then, consider me a Silent Key.

No problem. I can even take you off the list until you get it staightened out if you wish. Just let me know.

[farmfriend]

Never mind, I just remembered, California doesn't have a Republican Party!

I would it were not true.

[Seadog Bytes]

Thanks for the ping!

I read the article this morning in the local paper. My favorite part was:

Q: "When is a frog NOT a frog???

A: "When it's a 'PLANT'...!!!"

...PERFECT!

[farmfriend]

He's miffed by the suggestion that somebody would tamper with nature -- especially him, an adjunct teacher with the California Academy of Sciences -- for political gain.

He obviously has not heard of the Lynx hair plants. And just because it is frog habitat does not mean they were there to start with. I hate news articles that have no logic in them.

[Seadog Bytes]

RE: "He's miffed by the suggestion that somebody would tamper with nature -- especially him, an adjunct teacher with the California Academy of Sciences -- for political gain."

Even if one were to (...bend *way* over backwards and) give him the benefit of the doubt...that doesn't discount the possibility(...er...probability?) that someone ELSE did so. It's NOT like he's the ONLY one in the state who'd be interested in having such a critter "found" in that area.

ELSEwhere in the article I note...``You only sight one frog in three years? Come on,'' said Susan Stuart, one of the doubters, a cancer researcher who sent one of dozens of letters to the local newspaper on the topic. Her take: ``In my business -- biotechnology -- the frog finding would have been laughed out of the scientific journals.''

[E.G.C.]

BTTT!!!!!!!

[muir_redwoods]

It's a frog!!! Who cares??? The woodponds are full of them where I live. Trust me, there will always be enough.