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Opal creek Forest, Oregon
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Tailed Frogs are a uniquely strange and ancient frog family. Tails are present only on males (because they're, um, not tails). They live in clear, fast moving mountain streams. I'm incredibly excited to have encountered these amazing animals for the first time in Oregon's Opal Creek wilderness.
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Tailed Frogs are a uniquely strange and ancient frog family. Tails are present only on males (because they're, um, not tails). They live in clear, fast moving mountain streams. I'm incredibly excited to have encountered these amazing animals for the first time in Oregon's Opal Creek wilderness.
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Opal creek Forest, Oregon
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Tailed Frogs are a uniquely strange and ancient frog family. Tails are present only on males (because they're, um, not tails). They live in clear, fast moving mountain streams. I'm incredibly excited to have encountered these amazing animals for the first time in Oregon's Opal Creek wilderness.
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Tailed Frogs are a uniquely strange and ancient frog family. Tails are present only on males (because they're, um, not tails). They live in clear, fast moving mountain streams. I'm incredibly excited to have encountered these amazing animals for the first time in Oregon's Opal Creek wilderness.
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Tailed Frogs are a uniquely strange and ancient frog family. Tails are present only on males (because they're, um, not tails). They live in clear, fast moving mountain streams. I'm incredibly excited to have encountered these amazing animals for the first time in Oregon's Opal Creek wilderness.
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Discovered beneath rock in small cascading seepage. Recent forest clear-cut surrounds the seepage.
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Male with tail copulatory organ, but no dark palmar or forearm tubercles. Discovered by lantern walking at night, active in splash-zone of cascading stream during cold, frosty weather.
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Found near headwaters of Stone Creek, a tributary of the Oak Grove Fork of the Clackams river
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Found near headwaters of Stone Creek, a tributary of the Oak Grove Fork of the Clackams river
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Found near headwaters of Stone Creek, a tributary of the Oak Grove Fork of the Clackams river
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Found near headwaters of Stone Creek, a tributary of the Oak Grove Fork of the Clackams river
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Huge eyes with vertical pupils, and wide round mouth. Rough skin and large fifth toe on hind feet. Male with short-tail copulatory organ, and dark palmar and forearm tubercles. Measured: SVL 38 mm (1 in.), tail organ measured 6 mm ( in.). Discovered by lantern walking, seen on moss covered tree trunk roughly 3 m (10 ft.) from flowing creek.
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