Hello, fine, funky little friends.
Sadly, we had to bid our little ranine ribbitters adieu as they vanished from our dashboards last week. They were needed elsewhere, and by that, we mean the pond of princess tears, where they will engage in some top-secret singing by the half-light of the blue pansy moon in the third quadrant of a planet we can’t disclose lest we endanger their mission.
Here are some delightful stats to remember them by 🫡
The frogs ribbitted 48.5 million times! That's a lot of ribbits.
402k different people made sounds with the frogs.
32k of you “clicked for frogs,” but then never interacted with the frogs for some reason. We’re not quite sure what happened there.
Only 937 of you used the search bar to play frog tunes, but oh boy, did you play ’em! In total, you played 6.81k tunes.
At least one of you tried to hack the frogs. We see you. Good for you.
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Body swap movie where one of them has invisible disabilities and when the other one lands in their body they immediately collapse catatonic on the floor from the pain and fatigue and the first one is like 'oh damn guess I don't have to worry that I'm faking it anymore'
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do you feel positive, negative, or neutral about inaccurate plastic skeleton halloween decorations? like what's going on with this guy's everything?
you may not know this, but I am something of a specialist on amphibian skeletal anatomy, and this… thing is a sin against my entire field.
Frogs do not have ribs. Where is its pectoral girdle? Why does it have mammal feet? What even happened to its hips? Why does it have SO MANY VERTEBRAE‽ And what in the seven hells happened to its skull? Hypertrophy is one thing, but this… this is just lazy. They seem to have decided to give it a beak??? And the nostril is super far back and also somehow integrated into a bone¿?¿?
What in the name of Eru Ilúvatar is going on‽
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happy world frog day from camille 🌺💗
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today's elegant frog of the day is the purple frog (Nasikabatrachus sahyadrensis)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! they're endemic to the western ghats mountain range and spend most of their lives underground! they are also, notably, rather purple.
photo by sivabirds!
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Snoot boopers, this one’s for you! Meet the duck-billed tree frog (Triprion spatulatus). Found on Mexico’s Pacific coast, this species inhabits altitudes of up to 1,640 ft (500 m). Arboreal and primarily nocturnal, it feeds on invertebrates including crickets, grasshoppers, and spiders. Scientists have observed this critter using its shovel-like head to plug the openings of its burrows, guarding itself while it rests inside, which is why it’s also known as the shovel-headed tree frog.
Photo: magazhu, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, iNaturalist
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