I have recently moved to the beach. Recently, walking, stoned at night, I was shocked by the number of frogs on the beach. They were hanging out on the edge of the water. Or at least so I thought. It was dark. I was smoking. Maybe there are jumping crabs? Seems more likely than frogs in the sea.
There is, of course, one salt water amphibian, Rana cancrivora, the crab-eating frog. I was under the impression that this tiny frog lived in the mangrove swaps of the Mekong Delta. I studied it at University about five years ago. Well, I studied its kidney, or at least read about it.
I bought a torch and tonight had a good look. Yup, big fat yellow frogs jumping in and out of the water.
It turns out that I was wrong about several aspects of Rana cancrivora. I thought it was in Vietnamese, tiny and lived in swamps. It's not. It's big and lives at the bottom of my garden in Dumaguete.
Funny old thing, research.
