Tree Frog From Georgia Travels to Canada and Back | 台北市立動物園資訊網

2019年7月8日—TheCope'sgraytreefrogisusuallyabitofahomebody.The1-to2-inch-longamphibiansarerarelyseenontheground,spendingmostof ...

The Copes gray tree frog is usually a bit of a homebody. The 1- to 2-inch-long amphibians are rarely seen on the ground, spending most of their time in trees, and they dont typically travel more than a few miles from wherever they were born.

That must have made the last two months especially strange for one Copes gray tree frog from Georgia (pictured above), who recently completed a roughly 2,000-mile (3,200-kilometer) journey to Canada and back. The ordeal began in Sandersville, a city of 5,500 people in Central Georgia, where the frog apparently hopped into the cab of a cargo truck when the driver wasnt looking. The stowaway went unnoticed until the truck arrived in Mississauga, a city of about 800,000 people just outside Toronto.

When the driver found...