After swabbing and toe-clipping frogs the next day (see below), we placed frogs into new plastic enclosures containing a clay saucer and filter-sterilized tap water.
Ecologists Michael McCarthy and Kirsten Parris of the Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne in Australia used a sophisticated statistical technique called Bayesian analysis to check for effects of toe clipping on frog and toad survival.
A nurse's assistant, she still had on her scrubs, with her ID card hanging from a green clip shaped like a frog.
Why, you begin to wonder, do we live in a world in which Crazy Frog literally an animated frog that was borne out of a clip of a teenager trying to be as annoying as possible exists in the first place?
There are also the moments in the clips where she tosses Kermit the Frog around, standard slapstick in their PG relationship but jarring in this particular video.
Moracchioli, who runs Frog Leap Studios in Rogaland, western Norway, posted the clip online Friday, and it had garnered almost 200,000 views by Sunday morning.
With regard to toe clipping, we only marked two toes or fingers per frog and only one toe or finger per limb.
Frog floating and submerged times were tallied from timed observations or 30 second clips of videotape, and only periods of continuous floating that lasted longer than 30 seconds were counted.
Frogs were collected by hand or with a net, and a tissue sample (toe clip) was taken upon capture.
In another clip he states that troublesome chemicals are seeping into water ways and even turning male frogs into female frogs.
