At 12:27 AM 6/28/2003 -0400, Walter Knapp wrote:
> It was loaded with frogs of several species.
>Would not want to pass a bullfrog by and later find it had never been
>reported in that county.
This makes me wonder why the Bullfrogs in your area have not extirpated all
the others frog species. Out west here that's a real problem - Bullfrogs
get established as an invasive and they eat all others (except Wodehouse's
Toads in my area). It must be because the other frogs in your area
co-evolved with Bullfrogs and therefor have natural defenses, whereas in
the west Bullfrogs are an invasive and the native species didn't evolve
with any Bullfrog defenses?
Doug
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