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Submitted: March 14, 2011
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Date Taken:Mar 10, 2011, 11:43:21 AM
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Portrait of a frogby ~leilani-m

Photography / Animals, Plants & Nature / Reptiles & Amphibians

My son and I found this little green frog behind our house. It seems that she has just crawled out from her hibernation. She was sleeping somewhere in the woodland strawberries plantation (which we also have behind our house)

She is so cute and small. I love this beautiful green color and hypnotising amber eyes

You can see its real size here:

I picked her up to show her to my son, and then she didn't want to go away. Maybe she liked my warm hand

So I took the opportunity to take a shot of her on my finger

Some interesting facts about green tree frog:

European green tree frogs (Hyla arborea) are almost extinct in Western Europe, and in Croatia they are protected species.

Some of the main threats to H. arborea include habitat fragmentation and destruction, pollution of wetlands, predation from fish, capture for the pet trade, climate change, and local and far-ranging pesticides, fertilizers, and pollutants.

Historically, tree frogs were used as barometers because they respond to approaching rain by croaking. (It has just started to rain, but I didn't heard single frog the whole morning

)

H. arborea hibernate in walls, cellars, under rocks, under clumps of vegetation, or buried in leaf piles or manure piles.

Source: Wikipedia [link]