Frog Tees

This video has been around for a while now but is well worth posting for those who haven’t seen this amazing feat! These North American Wood Frogs freeze completely when winter comes, entering a hibernation period. They actually stop their heartbeat, and thaw when spring comes…

As part of an event hosted by the Association of Zoos & Aquariums Kermit the Frog spoke up for frogs and amphibian conservation…Kermit for President?!

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An amazing montage of all the 1995 Budweiser Frogs advertisements starting with the first Bud, Weis, and Er Frogs
as well as the arrival of the Lizards Louie and Frankie and last but not least…the Ferret!

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Time for some 1980s nostalgia with Rupert and the Frog Song from 1984. Directed by Geoff Dunbar and written and produced by Paul McCartney this animated short follows Rupert Bear as he goes into the hills to play and finds his way into a mysterious cave where he witnesses a chorus of frogs who sing what was to become a top ten hit, We All Stand Together.

It won a UK BAFTA (British Academy Award) for Best Animated Short Film and was also released theatrically alongside Paul McCartney’s movie Give My Regards to Broad Street.

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Vancouver Aquarium has a great channel on YouTube…this film of the False Tomato Frog is just one of the amazing videos you’ll find there:

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There was some amazing footage on the Science and Nature pages of BBC News yesterday showing the rare Panamanian golden frog waving, wrestling and courting for the first time. In fact, shortly after recording the footage for the BBC One series Life In Cold Blood (which is presented by Sir David Attenborough), the frogs had to be rescued from the wild, due to the threat of chytrid fungus - the whole species is now extinct in Panama and this recording shows their unusual behaviour for both the first and last time in their natural habitat.

Just found this classic episode from the TV series based on Kenneth Grahame’s Wind in the Willows in which Toad and Badger are set adrift in Toad’s hot air balloon whilst Mole is forced to come to the rescue by motorcar down below!

Created using old-fashioned stop-motion animation…such a shame that the predominance of CGI effects today have forced the virtual demise of this technique. Toad is voiced by David Jason of Only Fools and Horses and A Touch of Frost fame.

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Death of a Naturalist by Irish Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney is the title poem from his first major collection published in 1966 and one of the finest frog poems ever written!

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