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Index of Subjects Thanks for the correction. And, yes, I guess it must have been N Leopards calling from the lakeshore just below this pond. I have not heard the Green Frog call here yet but will be expecting it. Green Frogs would make more sense in that somewhat stagnant environment. Nancy On 2015-06-21, at 1:51 PM, Fred Schueler <bckcdb@istar.ca> wrote: > On 6/21/2015 12:07 PM, nancy dowd wrote: >> This is one of the Northern Leopard Frogs (Lithobates pipiens, formerly Rana pipiens) hanging out in my temporary well pond: >> https://www.flickr.com/photos/92981528@N08/18808723108/in/dateposted-public/ > > * that's a Green Frog - they're sometimes spotted like that or with even more Leopard-like patterns, but the dark spots never have the pale rings around them like Leopards do. I was proposed to discourse on a pattern variant the has lots and lots of little round spots, but... > > fred (Ph.D. thesis on Leopard Frog spotting patterns). > ============================================================ > > >> All of the images I view in guides and online show the N Leopards as having much larger spots than this one, such as the one shown here: >> http://naturemappingfoundation.org/natmap/facts/northern_leopard_frog_k6.html >> >> These are definitely L. pippins based on their calls. Does anyone know if this is a highly variable characteristic within or between populations? Or related to something else (like the muddy pond it is living in)? >> >> Nancy >> > > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------ > Frederick W. Schueler & Aleta Karstad > Daily Paintings - http://karstaddailypaintings.blogspot.com/ > Vulnerable Watersheds - http://vulnerablewaters.blogspot.ca/ > Mudpuppy Night in Oxford Mills - http://pinicola.ca/mudpup1.htm > RR#2 Bishops Mills, Ontario, Canada K0G 1T0 > on the Smiths Falls Limestone Plain 44* 52'N 75* 42'W > (613)258-3107 <bckcdb at istar.ca> http://pinicola.ca/ > ------------------------------------------------------------
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