Monday 8 June 2009

Coqui! Coqui!

Ahh, Puerto Rico. Hear the sounds of the coqui frog. And if you listen real goods- the ocean.

BTW... it is the coqui male that sings this tune- all night long apparently. He is the Lionel Richie of the frog kingdom. He is also about the size of a dime. The male also guards the eggs and then hangs for a few days post-hatch to keep an eye out. That's a good man. The babies- which must be the size of pinheads- skip the tadpole stage and hatch directly from the eggs as tiny but fully functional froglets! Muy cool.

Now, an old man making this sound on a jam packed airplane to entertain his three toddler relations that someone thought should sit together sans-adult in the row behind me is NOT muy cool. He is an a-hole. But proud of his ko kee sound making skills. Again... coqui? Cool. A-hole? Not cool.

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