{"id":207,"date":"2009-06-30T07:02:40","date_gmt":"2009-06-30T12:02:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pfeiffernaturecenter.org\/nature-blog\/?p=207"},"modified":"2009-07-02T10:55:18","modified_gmt":"2009-07-02T15:55:18","slug":"tadpole-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pfeiffernaturecenter.org\/nature-blog\/2009\/06\/tadpole-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Tadpole Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>6\/30 Update:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cortland.edu\/artsandsciences\/facultyprofiles\/duceyprofile.htm\" target= \"_blank\">Dr. Peter Ducey<\/a> from SUNY Cortland graciously responded to our request for tadpole ID, indicating that likely candidates are wood frogs and american toads.  I&#8217;m quite sure they&#8217;re not toads due to the shapes of the egg masses, so we&#8217;re left with wood frogs, one of my initial guesses.  I found a site with a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.backyardnature.net\/frogsex.htm\" target= \"_blank\"> photo of a wood frog tadpole<\/a> that confirms this.  (Try not to think about how he got that picture.)<\/p>\n<p>I took <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wildaboutnatureblog.com\/\" target= \"_blank\">Kenton &#038; Rebecca&#8217;s<\/a> suggestion, and this morning captured a few tadpoles in a clear plastic container.  Again.  For the third time.  I carried them to my sugar house, where it&#8217;s nice and dark.  <\/p>\n<p>And then back out into the early morning sunshine.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s now perfectly clear &#8211; those tadpoles are indeed iridescent, not luminescent.<\/p>\n<p>I STILL don&#8217;t know what kind of frogs they&#8217;ll turn into, however, so still looking for your information.<\/p>\n<p><font size=\"-1\">by Peg Cherre, Executive Director<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>6\/30 Update: Dr. Peter Ducey from SUNY Cortland graciously responded to our request for tadpole ID, indicating that likely candidates are wood frogs and american toads. I&#8217;m quite sure they&#8217;re not toads due to the shapes of the egg masses, so we&#8217;re left with&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,21],"tags":[35,58,59,12],"class_list":["post-207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals","category-reptiles-amphibians","tag-frogs","tag-iridescent","tag-luminescent","tag-tadpoles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pfeiffernaturecenter.org\/nature-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pfeiffernaturecenter.org\/nature-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pfeiffernaturecenter.org\/nature-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pfeiffernaturecenter.org\/nature-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pfeiffernaturecenter.org\/nature-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/pfeiffernaturecenter.org\/nature-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":240,"href":"https:\/\/pfeiffernaturecenter.org\/nature-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207\/revisions\/240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pfeiffernaturecenter.org\/nature-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pfeiffernaturecenter.org\/nature-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pfeiffernaturecenter.org\/nature-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}