{"id":5739,"date":"2010-04-03T11:29:33","date_gmt":"2010-04-03T16:29:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?p=5739"},"modified":"2010-04-03T11:55:16","modified_gmt":"2010-04-03T16:55:16","slug":"peep-show-at-the-turtle-journal-traveling-lightwave-carnival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?p=5739","title":{"rendered":"Peep Show at Turtle Journal Traveling Lightwave Carnival"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Mating Pair of Spring Peepers (Pseudacris crucifer)<\/em><\/strong>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

Step right up, ladies and gentlemen.\u00c2\u00a0 Push forward, kiddies; press\u00c2\u00a0your nose\u00c2\u00a0flat against the dazzling,\u00c2\u00a0fantasmagorical\u00c2\u00a0glass window.\u00c2\u00a0 Never before in the history of humankind has a\u00c2\u00a0virtual Peep Show offered such eye-popping, extra-ordinary sights and ear-splitting, explosive sounds right here in the Turtle Journal Traveling Lightwave Carnival, a Nature extravaganza so big it has\u00c2\u00a0tent\u00c2\u00a0flap, magic carpet\u00c2\u00a0openings\u00c2\u00a0built into every single digital computer and high speed handheld device on Planet Earth.<\/p>\n

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NO EXCEPTIONS … YOU MUST<\/span> BE THIS TALL TO ENTER<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Be warned and beware!\u00c2\u00a0 Once you enter the mysterical world of Turtle Journal, there’s no way out until you pass through the mouth of the Enormous Egress at the other end of the posting.<\/p>\n

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Spring Peeper Pair from Outer Cape Cod Vernal Pool<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Turtle Journal hiked a conservation trail in South Wellfleet Friday to search a series of vernal pools and swampy ponds where we have always found the very\u00c2\u00a0loudest and most cacophonous springtime serenades.\u00c2\u00a0 Even in bright sunshine, with temperatures dipping back into the 40s, only a few, isolated\u00c2\u00a0peepers screeched for amorous attention.\u00c2\u00a0 Luckily for us, Sue Wieber Nourse spotted a fast moving critter zigzagging through the mucky leaf matter at the bottom of a quickly evaporaping vernal pool.\u00c2\u00a0 Lo and behold, we discovered a mating pair of secretive spring peepers (Pseudacris crucifer<\/em>).<\/p>\n

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Spring Peeper Pair — Not Even a Handful<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Truth to tell, and we always try to tell the truth unless it gets in the way of a good story; we didn’t notice the pairing until we examined it up close and personal.\u00c2\u00a0 This twosome\u00c2\u00a0had so closely embraced that they moved like one with the female providing all the locomotive power as illustrated in the following video clip.<\/p>\n

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Spring Peeper Mating Pair on Outer Cape Cod<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Notice how tightly the two peepers are bound together and how powerfully the female springs forward with the male clinging\u00c2\u00a0to her back for dear life.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Female Spring Peeper<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Spring Peepers are small “chorus” frogs whose mating calls we recognize each March as the beginning of spring<\/span> serenade in wetlands across the Great White North.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 They are brown colored with a darker “X” on their back (dorsal side) which yields the Latin species name crucifer<\/em> (cross bearer).<\/p>\n

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Spring Peepers in Conubial Bliss<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Females are a bit larger than the males as illustrated in our pair pictured above.\u00c2\u00a0 Unsurprisingly, it is the male of the species that makes the loud, raucous mating calls that we recognize as the peeper chorus each spring.\u00c2\u00a0 “Won’t someone love me?” they screech at the top of their lungs.<\/p>\n

\u00c2\u00a0\"Wellfleet<\/a><\/p>\n

CAUTION:\u00c2\u00a0 Click Here to Enter the Mouth of the Enormous Egress<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mating Pair of Spring Peepers (Pseudacris crucifer)\u00c2\u00a0 Step right up, ladies and gentlemen.\u00c2\u00a0 Push forward, kiddies; press\u00c2\u00a0your nose\u00c2\u00a0flat against the dazzling,\u00c2\u00a0fantasmagorical\u00c2\u00a0glass window.\u00c2\u00a0 Never before in the history of humankind has a\u00c2\u00a0virtual Peep Show offered such eye-popping, extra-ordinary sights and ear-splitting, explosive sounds right here in the Turtle Journal Traveling Lightwave Carnival, a Nature extravaganza so […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[826],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5739"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5739"}],"version-history":[{"count":34,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5792,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5739\/revisions\/5792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}