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    Okay, there was a warm front here in Georgia. It was so warm some frogs, (namely spring peepers) woke up from hibernation. But then, it went into a very, very, VERY, cold front. On our driveway, we found a very dark/stressed young male cope's gray tree frog, and he was near death! He was probably trying to get to his breeding pond of lake, and almost froze to death. So we tuck him in and put him in a quarantine enclosure, (the most bare bones one in the world btw) and he is doing okay, at least for now. We are going to release him when it warms up over here, so that way he can breed and reproduce.

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    Nice of you to take it in, but keep in mind they're one of the freeze tolerant species:

    Is it true that some frogs can survive being frozen? » Scienceline

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    Yeah, but he was on the ground, his second eyelids were sunken in and he didn't respond at first, and barely had a pulse so... yeah

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    Almost no pulse, sunken eyes, non-responsive, that's normal for these guys in freezer mode:P. IIRC, it takes a few weeks after emerging from brumation for the cryoprotectants to flush, so they have some capability of withstanding thaw/freeze cycles in the spring.

    I'm not saying it was wrong to take it in or anything and hats off for caring. I probably would have just moved it out of the way and covered it with some mulch so it wasn't so exposed or in risk of being stepped on accidentally, that these frogs can withstand freezing is just one of their astonishing traits.

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