Frogs Mating....Problem??

[lucypooseface]

Originally Posted by weeziesmith

Hmmmmm A lot of things can come under the banner of it's nature. I'm sure many species would now be extinct if we'd left it to nature, dropping dead is nature....why bother with hospitals? Unless of course you believe we are supremely important and the animals aren't. I think we have a duty to help if we can.

well you see its called survival of the fittest, thats how everything evolves into better organisms, the fittest (i dont just mean excercise) survive becuase they have a strong trait which allows them to survive in the environment they live in (hence the reason they have soo many tadpoles, if they didnt they would live in an environment higher up the food chain with less chance of them being eaten off by other creatures, or the frog species would eventually die out!)
if we keep helping the weaker ones then the stronger traits will be bread out eventually until they cannot survive without human intervention altogether (extreme i know but you get the jist?)

and as for humans being treated for illnesses, well, we have evolved enough intelligence to prolong our lives by curing our illnesses, just like some birds have learnt how to keep parasites at bay by adding certain plants/herbs to their nests. it's still nature and it has its ways at keeping us under control too, look at all the nasty incurable diseases we keep discovering, one day there'll be a super nasty one which will wipe us all out and give the rest of the planet in peace before we destroy it totally and another animal evolves to take over...

[charliemonkey]

i am a new member so hope i have done this right.i have a pair of mating frogs in my pond and the one on the bottom is very swollen,last night the bottom one was on its own and not moving much even when i touched it but it was breathing;this morning it was paired up again with a frog submerged,is this normal and is the female likely to be dead or dying.they have been together for at least 7 days and still no sign of frogspawn. thanks.

[nightshade]

I find a lot of casualties after the frogs have been breeding, in my case thesecasualties can even be among my pond fish. I removed an amorous frog from the head of a 300mm golden carp it was holding on so tightly it has left pressure "bruises" on the fish, sometimes the frog kills the fish because they hold the gills shut

[MinniHaHa]

Thanks for this info I was a bit worried about my frogs. Thought that a last female was dead but just seen its leg move. Four lotw of spawn already.