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Old 06-03-2010, 12:22 AM
Malcolm Banks Malcolm Banks is offline
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Re: Adopting Frogspawn

They might come back but might not. I have had more adult frogs arriving in my pond this year than last, and they obviously were not from my last year's frogspawn (my first). Some frogs must migrate between ponds, species dispersal possibly modulated by density in local aquatic environments. So a bit of a coin toss I reckon. Someone must have marked frogs in some way to observe the "homing" behaviour, but I am just assuming that amongst my enlarged population of frogs are the 2 or 3 that were regular residents/visitors last year.
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