we have a new day here

Hello there ... the night is too 'quiet' as the day ...In case you want to see something else ..I have added new pics on Africam Treasure blog ..Now it covers the period 10 Sep.2006 to 16 Dec 2006 ...I suppose that the majority of those pics on Boma have been deleted by tiny pic ..so for those they missed that season or for those they want to see again the sightings of that season...you can still find the pics on blog ...

http://africamtreasures.blogspot.com/

I hope soon I will finish with 2006 ...to continoue with 2007

Have a great evening /night

Ok..I must go..happy camming .. and hope the frogs don't drive you all crazy

Hi..back for a few minutes...frogs sure have turned up the volume..lol

SueW thats great info  thanks

now we know who is making all the racket

the males go  shhhhhhh

the female rebeep

edited -  i used your info and put it on the last page of the africam book with your name in bright

pink

I think I'll go watch t.v.

AFRICAN CLAWED FROG

This is a unique family of frogs that lack a tongue and a visible ear. The males also lack vocal cords.

African clawed frogs have the ability to change their appearance to match their background. They can become dark, light, or mottled.

Males weigh two ounces (60 grams), and are about two to 2.5 inches (5 to 6 cm) long. Females are much larger. They weigh seven ounces (200 grams) and are about four to 4.5 inches (10 to 12 cm) long.

They prefer warm stagnant pools, and quiet streams; they are rarely found in running streams. At times when the pond dries up, this frog burrows in the mud and may lie dormant for up to a year. During the rainy season it can crawl long distances to another pond, but it can not hop. They leave the water only when forced to migrate.

African clawed frogs are carnivorous and eat anything they can find. They are scavengers and eat living, dead, or dying arthropods and other pieces of organic waste including aquatic insect larvae, water insects, crustaceans, small fish, tadpoles, worms, and freshwater snails. They have a voracious appetite and will attack anything that passes in front of it.

Presumably as a result of pet release, they have been introduced into [the U.S.] Orange and San Diego counties in California; Arlington, Virginia; and Delaware, where they are now pests, devouring native wildlife such as fish, frogs, tadpoles.

During the 1940s, female African clawed frogs were injected with urine of a female human. If the human was pregnant, then the injected frog would start producing eggs.

- Smithsonian National Zoological Park

hi all.  the frogs just stopped croaking for a moment while something ran from left to right out in the field.  looked small, maybe jackal size or so but no idea what it was as it was moving so more of a whitish blur as it ran across the area.  Hope we get some good sights and sounds tonight.