Santa Elena
Trip Start
Oct 22, 2006
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Trip End
Nov 23, 2006
Santa Elena,
Costa Rica
Friday, November 3, 2006
Most people go to Santa Elena/Monteverde for the cloud forest, which is fun and all, but the Frog Pond is where itīs at. For ten bucks you get to adventure through a glorified fish tank with 30 species of frogs not once, but twice. If thatīs not enough, your guide will perform the mating call of most of the species.
Hereīs what we learned:
-The Gladiator Frog is bad ass. During the mating season the males use their wolverine-like fist blades to cut the vocal chords of their competitors so he canīt perform his mating call. This fun little battle usually ends in death.
The Gladiator whose vocal chords are still intact coerces the female back to his lily pad where a bed of his semen awaits
Zip line in the cloud forest
. For the next couple of days the lady frog gets a deep tissue massage from her Gladiator.-The Hourglass Frogs enjoy their courting. The males sit perfectly still for up to 50 days while performing their mating call non-stop. The females choose their mate based on the duration of the call and their sloth like abilities. The last man squatting wins.
After months of sitting still the male gets some exercise by massaging his lady for 3 weeks.
-The Red-Webbed Tree Frog is the lion of all frogs. This bad boy sleeps 20 hours a day only to wake up for an orgy.
So frogs are cool
*We checked the facts. Itīs science.
