Some likened leaving their homes to playing Frogger, a 1980s video game in which a player moves a frog character across the screen, dodging traffic and other obstacles along the way.
Whether you call it Lilliputian, Tom Thumb or plain old miniature golf, a particularly scenic course is Magic Carpet Golf in Key West, Fla .Thirty-seven holes are set among the palm trees and tropical shrubs; obstacles and targets include a giant conch shell, a dinosaur with a moving head, a frog (shoot for the open mouth) and a kangaroo (aim for the pouch).
It is generally acknowledged that most frogs call by moving an air column from the lungs through the glottis with the remarkable exception of the family Pipidae, whose members share a highly specialized sound production mechanism independent of air movement.
Upon moving, the frog creates a striking appearance, previously hidden surfaces showing a deep golden orange interrupted by vertical black bars on the flanks and thighs.
Gratwicke says that although there has been no proven cases of the Bd pathogen moving to local frogs from frog leg imports, it is possible that spores could get into water systems from unskinned, unfrozen frog legs and thence into local frogs.
Even if not all small, dark and moving things were nutritious and not all nutritious things were small, dark and moving in the frog's natural habitat, this problem of complex causal roles would still remain.
In one famous case in California, environmental consultants inventorying species for a developer were caught secretly moving red-legged frogs to another location to reduce the costs of compliance with the Endangered Species Act (Lee 2001).
Moving frogs into your pond can deplete other ponds of their populations, could possibly infect the transported frogs with disease, and might (if the pond is not suitable habitat) put you in violation of the Abandonment of Animals Act of 1960.
Because the bridge approach to the tunnel was going to shade a man-made irrigation pond favored by the California red-legged frog, a threatened species, Caltrans, with oversight by state and federal agencies and local environmentalists, dug a new pond and moved the frogs.
When it became apparent that the city envisaged removing the sculpture and an uproar broke out, Mr. Pinault offered to move "Boy With Frog" to the Palazzo Grassi, but Mr. Ray refused.
