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Seed
 
Reply Mon 20 Sep, 2004 08:00 pm
now i know this is going to sound really weird and i almost would believe it if i hadnt seen it with my own eyes but I was there and I saw it. I just want to know if anyone knows what kind of frog it was. At first glance it was a regular tree frog, but when someone went to touch it, it arched its back and two horn like bones jutted from its lower back. Has any ever seen or heard of a frog like this? The frog was caught in VA Beach. when it jutted the horn like bones we jumped and the frog got away. please tell me i just didnt let a mutant free...
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littlek
 
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Reply Mon 20 Sep, 2004 10:10 pm
Yikes, I have no idea....
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kickycan
 
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Reply Mon 20 Sep, 2004 10:25 pm
I love frogs! Hopefully someone knows about this thing, cuz I'm interested.
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Phoenix32890
 
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Reply Tue 21 Sep, 2004 04:09 am
Seed- Horned frogs are not that uncommon, although you don't see them much. A look on Google elicited a bunch of mighty fine looking frogs. Which one was yours?

Link to "horned frogs"
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Seed
 
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Reply Tue 21 Sep, 2004 04:29 am
not that kind of horn Phoenix... like two sharp, defense like objects protruded through two slits in the animals skin just above the animals hip and then sunk back in.... this is why i can not find what it is... i have never seen ANYTHING like that at all....
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Phoenix32890
 
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Reply Tue 21 Sep, 2004 04:36 am
Hmmm................me neither. Have you looked up horned toads or lizards? Now I am curious!
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Seed
 
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Reply Tue 21 Sep, 2004 03:55 pm
i have but its not like a horn toad, it looked more like a tree frog... not your tipical horn toad... and it was totally not even close to a lizard... dont know many lizards that hop
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Seed
 
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Reply Thu 30 Sep, 2004 08:05 am
someone anyone? please? help?
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the Reverend
 
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Reply Tue 5 Oct, 2004 04:56 pm
Little late to find this and think about posting, eh? Haha, oh well. Anywho, this is awesome and I'm going to look for it! I probably won't get too angry at you if you're lying, I'm sure I'll learn cool stuff about frogs either way.


:wink:
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Seed
 
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Reply Tue 5 Oct, 2004 08:25 pm
if this was a lie then it would a pretty cool one... yet I only wish i was lying... cus if i was lying then it wouldnt bug me as much as it is...
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rosborne979
 
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Reply Sat 4 Dec, 2004 06:11 pm
Seed wrote:
if this was a lie then it would a pretty cool one... yet I only wish i was lying... cus if i was lying then it wouldnt bug me as much as it is...


Need additional clues; color of frog, size of frog, habitat.

Were the "horn" projections covered with skin, or bare, and if bare, what color/material?
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rosborne979
 
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Reply Sat 4 Dec, 2004 06:24 pm
Some tree frogs have very long legs (which they keep tucked up tightly against their sides) and bright white undersides, and when they arch their backs before jumping the knees point upward briefly exposing the white underside. Some frogs might even do this instinctively to startle predators, like you Smile (but I'm only guessing, since I wasn't there).

http://www.dgif.state.va.us/wildlife/species/photos/020009-2.jpg
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InTraNsiTiOn
 
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Reply Sat 4 Dec, 2004 06:37 pm
Awww, isn't he cute?
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Seed
 
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Reply Sat 4 Dec, 2004 07:08 pm
well they were bare... bone, in color and appearance. it wasnt its legs... though i can see how you might think it was. it was a tree frog, similar to the pic you posted above, just with two bone horns juttin out the back
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primergray
 
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Reply Sat 4 Dec, 2004 07:32 pm
Do you think it could have been injured?
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Seed
 
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Reply Sat 4 Dec, 2004 07:34 pm
well that what we thought at first... but when faced with being put in the jar it would thrust his hips up and try and stab the rim of the jar
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primergray
 
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Reply Sat 4 Dec, 2004 07:36 pm
weird...
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Seed
 
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Reply Sat 4 Dec, 2004 07:39 pm
in the highest since of the word my friend... in the highest since
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InTraNsiTiOn
 
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Reply Sat 4 Dec, 2004 08:05 pm
You guys touched it?....Put in in a jar?
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Seed
 
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Reply Sat 4 Dec, 2004 08:08 pm
boys will be boys
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