Fun with Frogs

Last night my husband and I celebrated Valentine’s Day.  He took me out to one of our favorite seafood restaurants and we watched Valentine’s Day (which was so good!).  Since my husband had been gone on business all week, we made the most of our dinner out alone by catching up on our week’s activities.  I brought my camera with me (I always have my camera with me) and showed him pictures of my adventures with the kids.  At one point my husband asked me when I was going to stop talking about the frogs.  Because apparently, he didn’t know that I liked frogs so much.  Neither did I.

Last week Aracely invited me to a media preview of Frogs:  A Chorus of Colors at Muzeo.  I love museums.  I’m the girl that used to spend hours at museums by herself as a single college student.  I was all over the frog adventure.  This exhibit, which runs through September 5, “features a colorful assortment of…150 live exotic frogs from all over the world…”  The exhibit features 15 live frog habitats and 12 interactive stations (which we really didn’t have time to explore since we were captivated by the beauty of the frogs).  Here is where you’ll see some of the most beautiful frogs I’ve ever seen.  The exhibit is educational and offers children of all ages the opportunity to learn all about the frog.  Some of the frogs were so visually stunning that they didn’t look real (until they moved).

Our group had an opportunity to participate in the “feeding of the frogs.”  The older kids had a blast doing this and my son was just itching to stick his little hands in their habitat.  At the end of the tour, my son was very upset about leaving the frogs.  Over the weekend he kept asking me when we were going to see the frogs again.  We’ll definitely be going back…with hubby this time!

Here are some fun frog facts (from the exhibit):

•    The world’s largest frog is the Goliath frog of West Africa. It can grow to 15 inches and weigh up to 7 pounds – about the size of a newborn human. A goliath frog skeleton is displayed in Frogs: A Chorus of Colors.
•    The world’s smallest frog may be the Cuban tree toad, which only grows to a length of 1/2 inch.
• Evidence points to frogs having lived on Earth for some 360 million years, predating many   dinosaur species.
• There are approximately 4,900 species of frogs worldwide, with an estimated 1,000 more yet to be discovered.
• A frog’s eyes are a natural marvel, both extremely sensitive to movement and capable of night vision. But these keen peepers even play a key role in digestion. A frog will actually pull its eyes into the roof of its mouth to assist in pushing food down its throat.
• The webbed toes of frogs, besides helping a frog in the water, have been adapted by many tropical tree frog species like the Chinese gliding frog, as a soaring apparatus when they jump from treetop to treetop.

Admission to Frogs:  A Chorus of Colors is $13 for adults and $9 for children.  For more information about location and times, just visit their website.