Phyllomedusa sauvagii

[robin]

this is my very first frog

he is a waxy monkey frog Phyllomedusa sauvagii

 

[fuzzylogix]

cutest...frog...EVAR!

 

[robin]

he is just a baby. he will get quite big when he/she is an adult. i am very excited about him/her. i have been doing research on them for a while now. luckily i found some CBB ones at the san antonio show

 

[joeyjoe9876]

Just warning you, once you get one tree frog, you will be inclined to get more LOL.
I've kept squirrel tree frogs and greens in the past and I just got my first Big eyed a few weeks ago and am already planning on getting red eyes and Whites haha.

cute frog, you planning on breeding?

 

[robin]

Just warning you, once you get one tree frog, you will be inclined to get more LOL.
I've kept squirrel tree frogs and greens in the past and I just got my first Big eyed a few weeks ago and am already planning on getting red eyes and Whites haha.

cute frog, you planning on breeding?

hehe i hear that about frogs

breeding? not right now i want to grow this guy up and see how it goes and see how i like this guy . although i am sure i will LOVE him. i mean i already do hehehe

 

[Enigmatic_Reptiles]

Awesome addition Robin. It looks very nice for sure.

 

[triplegex]

Sweet Robin! Phyllomedusa are my favorite kind of frogs!

 

[Dog Shrink]

Omg... too cute

It's like....

Hey...

 

[monkeytechahoo]

tooooo CUTE!!! *LMAO*


My kids laughed at me while I gawked and goo gooed at the frogs at the show. I SOOoo want some, but the rental house we're in gets too dang cold in spots & too hot in others for them I think. AND we did just start on Leos & a snake & a beardie this year..no new pets. *lol*

 

[thegeckoguy23]

Haha today I was talking wit this guy i met at my reptile store i went to check out some of his frogs and some of the white dumpys just crack me up! Nice frog also!



Jake

 

[M_surinamensis]

Lolfrogs are incoming. Not from me, just... Robyn with a frog and a camera and a copy of paint so she can writing things on them, it is inevitable.

 

[robin]

Lolfrogs are incoming. Not from me, just... Robyn with a frog and a camera and a copy of paint so she can writing things on them, it is inevitable.

it's photoshop cs3 thank you very much ...

 

[Tony C]

Congrats, it's about time!

 

[robin]

thank you for helping me with finding the right one..

it's really cool how these guys walk and move. they are absolutely gorgeous hopefully i can get some better photos once he settles in

 

[M_surinamensis]

And eat!

You will eventually get hand-stuffing behaviors, shoving an insect down the food-hole with his front feet. This requires photos. Try to get one with the eyes open (it's tough to do, frogs swallow with their eyeballs).

 

[Dog Shrink]

frogs swallow with their eyeballs).

Really? Can you elaborate how this works? My son had a wood toad and I noticed she hardly ever swallowed with her eyes open. Fascinating.

 

[M_surinamensis]

Really? Can you elaborate how this works? My son had a wood toad and I noticed she hardly ever swallowed with her eyes open. Fascinating.

If you look at the skull and associated musculature of a frog or toad you will notice that there is a lot of open space in that wide mouth and that it is, to varying degrees by species, horizontally flattened. When frogs swallow, they initially push food down their throat with tissue attached to the roof of the mouth- they generate additional pressure by also utilizing the muscles around the eyes, basically squeezing them in and down and displacing more of the tissue in the mouth in the process.

If you look closely at your son's toads as they eat, you'll notice that it is not just a simple blink. It is not just a closing of the eyelid, but the entire raised area around the eye will sink in and down.

So they pretty much blink when eating and swallow with the back of their eyeballs. The flatter the skull and the thinner the musculature inside the mouth, the more the eyes (well, muscle groups around the eyes anyway) play a role and the more pronounced the blinking behavior is.

 

[Dog Shrink]

If you look at the skull and associated musculature of a frog or toad you will notice that there is a lot of open space in that wide mouth and that it is, to varying degrees by species, horizontally flattened. When frogs swallow, they initially push food down their throat with tissue attached to the roof of the mouth- they generate additional pressure by also utilizing the muscles around the eyes, basically squeezing them in and down and displacing more of the tissue in the mouth in the process.

If you look closely at your son's toads as they eat, you'll notice that it is not just a simple blink. It is not just a closing of the eyelid, but the entire raised area around the eye will sink in and down.

So they pretty much blink when eating and swallow with the back of their eyeballs. The flatter the skull and the thinner the musculature inside the mouth, the more the eyes (well, muscle groups around the eyes anyway) play a role and the more pronounced the blinking behavior is.

Neat... thanks so much for explaining that. :main_thumbsup:

 

[prettyinpink]

No Robin...Noo...Nooo! How could you! Did Tony turn you!!! :main_no: How am I suppose to not buy any while you're posting cute pics too!!! :main_lipsrsealed:

...they actually sit still on your finger? Awe the cuteness

 

[robin]

ruby in his setup

(ruby is circled in blue LOL)