October 2008

Spring time is here, and all the frogs here at the Zoo have started to warm up and are starting to get their appetites back.

I hope you all made it to the Zoo over these school holidays and helped find Laurie the lost frog. We had so much fun at the Zoo over these September school holidays, with "Meet a frog talks" taking place at the bandstand in front of the Reptile house twice daily and kids all around the zoo looking through their magnifying glasses to decode the clues to find Laurie.

There has been some huge developments in our Southern Corroboree Frogs, we now have TWO baby frogs. In frog speak we call these metamorphs. These frogs are only 7mm long and are eating one-day-old crickets! They are so tiny!
The other 5 tadpoles are all developing well. Not long till we have more baby frogs with bright black and yellow stripes on them!

Happy 4th Birthday to the Stuttering Barred Frog tadpole, who had its birthday on September 9th. This tadpole look set to never develop into a frog, as it happily munches on endive (a type of lettuce), bloodworm and little bits if fish flake.

Our Japanese Fire Bellied Newt babies are doing very well; we have approximately 20 of them and they are all around 1.5cms in length.

There is still a long time to go for International Year of the Frog, so try and do your little bit at home by not pouring paints down the drain. One other thing you can do is NOT LITTER, all rubbish dropped on the ground ends up in waterways, and guess who lives there... our wonderful frog friends!

National Frog week is also coming up and here at the Zoo we will be having lots of fun froggy events. The dates are Saturday 1st and Sunday 2nd November. Hope to see you here!

Don't forget....

'It seems to me that if you wait until the frogs and toads
have croaked their last to take some action,
you've missed the point.' Kermit the Frog

Happy Croaking
Raelene