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Faunamelitensis — A Frog Meeting
Published: 2009-12-26 19:28:09 +0000 UTC; Views: 745; Favourites: 19; Downloads: 1
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Photo: Arnold SciberrasMediterranean Painted Frogs gathering together, due to lack of place where to rest. see faunamelitensis.deviantart.com… for more info on this species to see its first photo.
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I`ve featured this in my latest 
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wow! i never knew they gather together for wrmth! but frogs are poikilothermic, so they don't release body warmth . . .weird
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well, i could be wrong, you're right, they are cold blooded,it doesn't make much sense if they can't control their own heat, so i assume also that they climb there to because they don't have any rocks where to climb and use plants for refuge. what i don't understand then is why they don't face each other. strange
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how come? generally frogs face each other? i never knew. anyway when i first saw the picture i thought it was a breeding ball or something, except that i didn't see any eggs. maybe it could have been the males awaiting the females to lay eggs for external fertilisation?
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no, its just that, for some reason we don't understand, none are facing each other. could be for a look out or something. it could be for mating reasons too.
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weird . . . has such behaviour ever been seen before? and by chance you don't know exactly where ghar harq hamiem is hux? ghax i know it's around st. george's bay, i just can't find where
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it's rarely seen.
sorry,I don't know the whereabouts of this cave, but now that you've mentioned it, i would like to visit it
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it's ok, i've been dying to find it, it's a massive subterranean cavern with a large pool of underground water. i know that it's somewhere at the end of Wied Harq Hamiem, around St. George's Bay. there's supposed to be like a quarry wall with a largeish crack in it, the floor of the crack is reinforced with concrete, but i can't find any maps or anything on the internet
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thanks for giving me an idea where it is
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you're welcome
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Hm, interesting behavior. I wonder if it is for mating reasons. Everybody want to be the lucky guy.
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may be because they had nowhere to stand on, so they used the algae for support.
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well, it's not a common sight, but they do it.
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