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Abnormalities of the Iberian water frog (rana perezi)
Among so many frogs, which are living here in the home-biotope, hither and thither otherness happens, injuries or pigmentary abnormalities. These frogs I would like to show at this place. Of course I am not an expert and mostly do not know what it really is all about. But I watched that all these frogs were successful in making prey and can manage their lives very well.
This squint-eyed female frog we named Lilofee!:
And this frog with the open wound, I was able to watch over several weeks:
Not even such a big furuncle detained the frog to be very successful in making prey:
And also this female frog had made it - despite an eye problem - to a considerable size:
It looks like this female frog is blind in one eye:
This guy's right front leg is missing. Although an excellent swimmer!
Well, and who is that? A blue Iberian waterfrog beside his green colleagues:
The pigmentary abnormality inherited like albinism.
In these pictures the blue beauty, which is after one year still living in the same mini-biotope, as I recognized happily, is molting!
July 2009
Birgit Kremer