{"id":12484,"date":"2013-03-25T09:22:30","date_gmt":"2013-03-25T14:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?p=12484"},"modified":"2013-03-25T12:21:17","modified_gmt":"2013-03-25T17:21:17","slug":"wood-frog-eggs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?p=12484","title":{"rendered":"LIFE BEGINS (Wood Frog Eggs)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/post-wood-frog-002-840.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12497\" title=\"post wood frog 002 480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/post-wood-frog-002-480.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"386\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/post-wood-frog-002-480.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/post-wood-frog-002-480-300x241.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em><strong>Wood Frog (Rana sylvatica)<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Wood frogs (<em>Rana sylvatica<\/em>) serve as troubadours of springtime in SouthCoast wetlands.\u00c2\u00a0 Their distinctive quack-like croaks can be heard as March temperatures crack the mid-40s and even before cheery spring peepers serenade the marsh.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><object width=\"480\" height=\"360\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/ZeagAarJD18?hl=en_US&amp;version=3&amp;rel=0\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed width=\"480\" height=\"360\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/ZeagAarJD18?hl=en_US&amp;version=3&amp;rel=0\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Wood Frogs Haunt Spooky SouthCoast Wetlands<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In this video from mid-March 2012,\u00c2\u00a0behind the scary theme\u00c2\u00a0music you can hear the raucous chorus of amorous wood frogs heralding another mating season in Southeast Massachusetts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/post-springtime-960.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-12488\" title=\"Sierra Exif JPEG\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/post-springtime-480.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"262\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/post-springtime-480.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/post-springtime-480-300x163.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em><strong>Neverending Winter in Southeast Massachusetts<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Despite this neverending winter in the Northeast, with wetland trails still covered in ice and snow, the Turtle Journal team visited several SouthCoast swamps and bogs on Sunday as temperatures &#8220;soared&#8221; (sic) into the low 40s.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/post-egg-masses-999-960.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12486\" title=\"post egg masses 999 480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/post-egg-masses-999-480.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"326\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/post-egg-masses-999-480.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/post-egg-masses-999-480-300x203.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em><strong>Frog and Salamander Egg Masses in Shallow Bog Channel<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In\u00c2\u00a0an abandoned Marion cranberry bog, we found a large number of assorted frog and salamander eggs affixed to reeds under a thin layer of overnight\u00c2\u00a0ice in shallow channels closely abutting the surrounding woodlands.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/post-wf-egg-masses-001-960.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12495\" title=\"Sierra Exif JPEG\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/post-wf-egg-masses-001-480.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"195\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/post-wf-egg-masses-001-480.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/post-wf-egg-masses-001-480-300x121.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em><strong>Wood Frog Egg Masses in Shallow Washburn Wetlands<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">With bright late March sunshine, temperatures reached the mid 40s in Marion&#8217;s Washburn Park, where the warm shallow water\u00c2\u00a0of bog channels enticed hundreds of wood frogs to bask and breed.\u00c2\u00a0 Egg masses were clustered in sunny areas throughout the swamp.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/post-wf-egg-mass-002-960.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12490\" title=\"post wf egg mass 002 480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/post-wf-egg-mass-002-480.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"391\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/post-wf-egg-mass-002-480.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/post-wf-egg-mass-002-480-300x244.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em><strong>Wood Frog Egg Mass Closeup<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Examination of the egg masses indicated that they may have been freshly deposited as eggs seemed to be in the early stage of development.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/post-wf-egg-mass-004-dividing-960.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12492\" title=\"post wf egg mass 004 dividing 480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/post-wf-egg-mass-004-dividing-480.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"494\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/post-wf-egg-mass-004-dividing-480.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/post-wf-egg-mass-004-dividing-480-291x300.jpg 291w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em><strong>Closeup of Dividing Wood Frog Eggs<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A closeup of individual\u00c2\u00a0zygotes appear to catch eggs in cleavage at the 2 and 4 cell stage.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/post-wf-egg-mass-004-dividing-closeup-480.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12494\" title=\"post wf egg mass 004 dividing closeup 480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/post-wf-egg-mass-004-dividing-closeup-480.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"603\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/post-wf-egg-mass-004-dividing-closeup-480.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/post-wf-egg-mass-004-dividing-closeup-480-238x300.jpg 238w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em><strong>Closeup of Dividing Wood Frog Eggs<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The closeup above captures individual\u00c2\u00a0zygotes\u00c2\u00a0in the process of division.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wood Frog (Rana sylvatica) Wood frogs (Rana sylvatica) serve as troubadours of springtime in SouthCoast wetlands.\u00c2\u00a0 Their distinctive quack-like croaks can be heard as March temperatures crack the mid-40s and even before cheery spring peepers serenade the marsh.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Wood Frogs Haunt Spooky SouthCoast Wetlands In this video from mid-March 2012,\u00c2\u00a0behind the scary theme\u00c2\u00a0music you can 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