#WorldFrogDay #frogs #art #frog #avatar #fantasy

#WorldFrogDay

#WorldFrogDay

RT @GromesRoland
Oh, it's #WorldFrogDay? Well, then let me retweet this thread! Lots of frogs from the wild and zoos for you to enjoy! https://twitter.com/GromesRoland/status/1581730249532137472

This was meant to be for #WorldFrogDay, in case anyone is confused

And if you're interested in a #frog #pnc for #WorldFrogDay, good news! #Australia Post have a limited edition pnc of four frog medallions, featuring frogs from around Australia: https://auspost.com.au/shop/product/frogs-prestige-medallion-cover-0316571 limited to only 200. Featured frogs are the Armored Mist Frog, the Baw Baw Frog, the Australian Lace Lid frog, and the Tasmanian Tree Frog

It's #WorldFrogDay (or yesterday was, but I haven't been around much lately, so I'm coming in late!).

Here is my #Exonumia #PNC contribution. The Australian Native #Frogs #Medallion PNC featuring the Tasmanian Tree #Frog. This one is #PMC Number 1289 of 3300, First day of issue, 10 July 2018, Hoppers Crossing, VIC, 3029. The medallion itself features a clear window and that beautiful frog. #Australia #MedalMonday

@BelfastRoadster

Rule #17:
Kiss the frog
#WorldFrogDay #Frog #Frogs #Amphibians #Nature #Pond #Pondlife

OMG. WORLD FORG DAY!

I love this.

#WorldFrogDay #WorldForgDay 4eva
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RT @2DollarCreature
It’s World Frog Day?! We were just talking about what frog species we would each be!

Which frog do you think is each of us (Ray, Nye, Meghan, Laura)? https://twitter.com/atanak74/status/1637892422880337948
https://twitter.com/2DollarCreature/status/1638032519705575426

My face when I realize that #WorldFrogDay is over already even though I still had lots more #frogs to share waiting in queue…

Frog, #woodblock print by Matsumoto Hoji (松本奉時) in the Meika gafu (名家画譜), #Japan, published 1814. British Museum collection: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/A_1979-0305-0-236-2

#WorldFrogDay + #WorldSparrowDay ivory #nestukes from the @walters_museum:
1. Skull and Toad
Ohara Mitsuhiro, Edo, early-mid 19th c.
https://art.thewalters.org/detail/36961/skull-and-toad/
2. Stylized Fukurasusume ("fat sparrow")
after Masanao of Kyoto, Edo, early 19th c.
https://art.thewalters.org/detail/13711/netsuke-of-a-stylized-fukurasusume-fat-sparrow/

#WorldFrogDay: in ancient #Egypt, #frog spawns were timed with the annual flooding of the Nile, making them fitting animal avatars of Heqet, a goddess of fertility, birth & rebirth.
Collection of frog amulets from New Kingdom to Late Period, c. 1550-332 BCE, at @metmuseum:

My face when I realize that #WorldFrogDay is over already even though I still had lots more #frogs to share waiting in queue…

Frog, #woodblock print by Matsumoto Hoji (松本奉時) in the Meika gafu (名家画譜), #Japan, published 1814. British Museum collection: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/A_1979-0305-0-236-2

RT @BenYehudaPress
On #WorldFrogDay, we remind you that the plague of frogs in Exodus is actually in the singular in the Hebrew. The plague of frog.

Rabbi Akiva says in the Talmud that it was one frog responsible for all of it.

#WorldFrogDay: Catalina Zunie (Zuni Pueblo master potter, 1862-1949)
Olla (Water Jar) w/tadpoles, frogs, dragonflies, & birds, c.1920
“Much of the imagery…originates from medicine-jar decorations. Toads & frogs were symbols of abundance & healing to the Zuni, likely due to their intimate connections to water & the transformations inherent to their life cycles. The knife-wing birds & dragonflies reflect the traditional themes of water, air, & the cycle of nature.” On display @ Barnes Foundation.

#WorldFrogDay: "Horned Frog" from The Naturalist's Miscellany, v.3,pl.76 (1791-2) by George Shaw. BHL: https://biodiversitylibrary.org/item/155192#page/18/mode/2up

Maybe this Surinam Horned Frog wouldn't look so happy if it could read what Shaw wrote about it in its description...
""Should inquiry be made, which is the ugliest animal yet known to exist? The creature here represented might perhaps with justice be proposed as an answer: an animal of such prodigious deformity as even to exceed in this respect the Surinam toad...." ☹️

[Turn on the sound!] Dozens or hundreds of Japanese toads (Bufo japonicus) are battling it out for mates. Look at the magnificent kick of the male guarding the female! An amazing scene in a spring wetland. #MaleMaleCompetition #WorldFrogDay (belated)

#WorldFrogDay: #DYK that over 1/3 of frog species are currently listed as threatened? That includes #1 on this plate, the Giant Marsupial Frog (Gastrotheca ovifera). (See ALTs for full species key)

"Batrachia" Plate 68 in Kunstformen der Natur (1899-1904) by Ernst Haeckel (German, 1834-1919).
Biodiversity Heritage Library: https://biodiversitylibrary.org/pageimage/47388319

RT @brookfield_zoo
In honor of #WorldFrogDay we're raising awareness for amphibians like the blessed dart frog! 🐸

These subspecies of poison frogs are native to the Amazon rainforests in Peru.

RT @lincolnparkzoo
Today, on #WorldFrogDay, we celebrate these diverse and valuable treasures of the ecosystem who do their part to maintain ecological integrity by feeding on algae, which helps keep our waters clean. 🐸