Dart Den

I was pulling some froglets this morning and found this little guy carrying around a tad, pretty cool!

Wow ! Great find Craig !

Interesting.

Wow.. Interesting.

I cant find better words then the ones you two used. lol

What would be more interesting is if the froglet deposited the tad...did he?

Very good question

A good big brother, or sister.
Derek

I'm surprised you pulled it tad intact. Can't tell you how many tad rescues I've done when spooking a transporter that I didn't happen to see.

Wonder if it was in the same deposition site when the tad was planted.

unfortunately when I placed the froglet back in the tank, it dropped the tad which I then placed in the nearest brom axil. If I had noticed the tad on its back I wouldn't have pulled it, so the whole thing was sort of an accidental find...It was certainly a thought provoking find. Was it accidental, was it intentional, is there a greater communal effort by these frogs to tend the tads? Is this the type of thing that would only happen in a tank or does it/could it happen in the wild? I hope to see more incidents so I can observe some actual froglet transports

Hobbyist observation sometimes > zoological or academic