Kermie
Kermit the toad sits on a toy scale before a weigh-in during an annual check-up Jan. 10 at a Hanover, Germany, zoo that houses 2072 animals of 217 species.
(Jochen Luebke, DDP / AFP / Getty Images)
Is he not the cutest? Really. He is.
In other news....
This Florida woman had a rough day. Imagine hearing a cat caught in the walls of your house, crying and screaming. It must be enough to turn your knees to jelly. You call the fire department and seven firefighters show up. They hear the same thing. They spend the next eight hours drilling into the walls and pipes in your house to rescue the cat. And what do they find? Well...not a cat… Does homeowner’s insurance cover this sort of thing? I don’t think mine would.
Our little noisemakers seem to be less intense. The Spring Peeper (Pseudacris crucifer) is a welcome sweet sound just after sunset. Cheerful and just a part of spring and summer evenings. I’ve heard them all my life, but I have never seen one. They hide extremely well during the day.
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Great typo in the Florida story: “secret venom.”
I imagine some viewers of that report immediately thought of Poe’s The Black Cat.
If that’s a coqui frog, when there are lots of them they make incredible amounts of racket. We’re in the midst of trying to eradicate them with biological methods out here.