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15-Jan-2023 IAN CLOWES

15th Jan 2023 - frog

A few hours stroll around Chester Zoo. This is a frog in the monsoon forest. Warning, it's very humid in the monsoon forest. Step inside from a cold day and everything will steam up :)! So have a lens tucked away somewhere warm to swap in, or bring a coffee and wait! Although I'm not sure if you can drink a coffee in the monsoon forest area! Chester Zoo is an amazing conservation-driven organisation, that happens to be just down the road and well worth a visit. Hand-held at 1/18th sec from some way away. Quite liking the 70-300 :).

https://www.chesterzoo.org

I think it's the Mexican Leaf Frog, but happy to be corrected - should have read the sign! If it is then the zoo was the first to successfully breed them in captivity. And the frogs like it very very hot!

https://www.thebhs.org/publications/the-herpetological-bulletin/issue-number-158-winter-2021/3411-02-husbandry-and-captive-reproduction-of-the-giant-mexican-leaf-frog-i-agalychnis-dacnicolor-i/file

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