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Sometimes I see drawings depicting animals with typically feminine human traits, and my brain automatically makes me imagine an alternative reality in which a race of sentient toads draws female humans according to their own beauty standards :blobartist:

[I posted it to my previous instance, so I am reposting it here.]

Meet Frank, neither #cat nor #dog. We got to talking after he offered me a cigarette recently. And you know, it turned out, he's a good guy. We used to live in different worlds, but now we're sitting across each other in the garden enjoying our whisky and talking about life, the Universe and everything. So even a #frog needs to talk to someone at times.

#photo #photography #photographie #fotografía
#nature #NaturePhotography
#summer #outdoors #pond
#darktable
#creativecommons #ccbysa
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Here is one of the many bullfrogs who lives in the corner of the lake where several herons hunt for lunch.

I was able to observe several frogs floating in the water until a woman walked past with her off leash dog. The dog ran into the water and all of the frogs swam under water and the heron flew off.

It seems many dog owners don't care that people like to observe nature and that wild life doesn't exist purely for their off leash dogs' entertainment. (There is a 6 foot leash law in this particular park and only about half of the dog owners I see observe it.)

#NewSpecies of rain #frog, Breviceps batrachophiliorum, discovered in South Africa news.nwu.ac.za/new-species-rai paper: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10

"3 passionate frog enthusiasts set out on a mission to spot and document every frog in Prof du Preez’s field guide... When they found what they believed to be a Bilbo’s rain frog (named after Bilbo Baggins who also lived in a hole in the ground), they sent a photograph and a recording to Prof du Preez... There was something curious..."