Sunday, June 16, 2013

Frogs, frogs, frogs.

Being rainy season, Japan gets lot of rain this time of the year. There is no animal which loves the rain more than the cute and cuddly frog. There are many different kinds of frogs in Japan, river frogs, tree frogs and giant toads. When the rain drives down a chorus of croaks and chirps can be heard in the dark of the night. It can be quite relaxing at bed time. 
Night driving can be difficult when its raining as the road is covered in frogs and I don't like squashing them. 

 The tadpoles live in the rice fields and these are now full of water and baby rice plants. Today when out hiking we found this frog hiding in the river. Can you see it? Frogs are of course snakes number one snack. So if you hear or see frogs there will probably be a snake living nearby. But more on snakes another time. 

 Frog = Kaeru  (Kai air roo) Tadpole = Otama-jakushi (o ta ma jack ku she)

 While we were watching this frog a leech stuck to my hand. Oh no!
I wonder if a snake can see this frog? Can you?
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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I can see the Frog its on the rock, I can see the frogs eyes its kind of hard to see the frog because the shape of the rock under the water is kind of like a frog shape so its pretty camouflaged and hard to see but I think a BRAINY snake with the most talented vision could see it. from Alysha the most SWAGGALY AWESOME PERSON EVER

June 17, 2013 at 12:22 AM
Murchison Area School and Friends said...

Nice spotting Alysha, you's be great over here as a snake spotter. They make me nervous, so i'm always looking out for them.

June 19, 2013 at 9:06 PM

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