So last week we were introduced to a most unusual frog. The Chamberland family shared photos with Sudbury.com of a blue frog they found in the waters of Red Deer Lake.
Now, let us introduce you to another unusual amphibian.
Celine and Herb Cashmore of Chelmsford sent in the photos (above) of a strange-looking, and quite lovely, frog. They said their children discovered the creature near the family’s hot tub, where it’s been hanging out for much of the past month.
They hoped Sudbury.com could tell them what it is. Given its pale colour, the family thought perhaps the frog was albino.
“We have discovered this albino frog that hangs around in our hot tub,” the family wrote to us. “Not sure if this is a rare frog, but what was strange also is that it was eating its own slimy skin. That's what it appeared to us.”
Eeew. So, Sudbury.com reached out to Science North and the knowledgeable Bluecoats were quickly able to identify the frog.
“It is a beautiful Eastern Gray Tree Frog or just Gray Tree Frog,” Sudbury.com was told by Kathryn Farr-Simon, a Bluecoat science communicator in the Wetlands Lab.
Even stranger, the Eastern Gray is a bit of a chameleon it seems, able to change its colour from grey to “a vibrant green,” the Bluecoats said. And the skin-eating?
“In the one picture provided, it is shedding its skin and eating it, which is completely normal for frogs,” Farr-Simon said.
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