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David de Groot 📸

My morning was improved one-hundred-fold by the discovery of this tiny Eastern Dwarf Treefrog on a citrus fruit.

It was no bigger than a beetle, and almost the same colour as the unripe fruit.

@david #frogsOfMastodon
what a lovely discovery in spite of the camouflage!

@david nature is awesome! Thanks for sharing. Humanity should focus on enjoying, preserving and researching such wonders together.

@david beautiful but can it kill you? It’s Australian so deadly, yah?

@skoombidoombis hahaha, not everything here can kill you, doesn’t mean it doesn’t want to though.

@david Thank you! I needed to see a tiny frog today. 🐸

@gsuberland they are remarkably loud when they want to be, but this one was being very quiet.

@david Their poison can kill you with the merest touch.

Seriously?

Usually, poisonous frogs are brightly colored, not camouflaged, to warn their predators.

If this animal actually were poisonous, someone should add that info to the Wikipedia article on the species.

@sleepyfox @david

@david this is absolutely adorable and 😍

Your luck is on 🔥🔥

@david the EDT!

do he eat the fruit and absorb its colour? adorable

@falcennial maybe it’s just from osmosis ;-)

@david
Do you mind sharing what you used to take the photo? The lighting, detail and color are amazing

@latent_space overcast day, canon 1DX body, sigma 150-600 contemporary lens.

f/8 ISO 6400 iirc