Do frogs get lonely?

[Julia]

Interesting thing here is that this debate seems split along gender lines. Interesting, but not surprising

I wouldn't go as far as saying its a gender thing. Or maybe I am an exception. I enjoy my frogs very much, but not believe they have emotion beyond their survival instinct.

[Wambli]

With great care in the interest of thorough and accurate research I separated my frogs in different rooms so they could not hear the other frogs answer to the following question. I figured my frogs would be able to help with this question.

Do frogs get lonely?

Below are the answers right from the frogs mouth.

Red eye – Girl - Girlie: Alone… never… I love Squirter… he is so cutie and keeps me warm at night.

Red eye – Boy – Squirter: Alone… wow that would be nice. Girlie is always trying to sit on my leaf and then it flops over.

Whites Dumpy – Boy – Bud: Alone… Nope… I like to have my women around and I think the human puts more crickets in my cage because there are a bunch of us in here. But you could get rid of the other male… he always try’s to out due my vocals.

Whites Dumpy – Girl – Sharron: Alone… I don’t think so… who would I sit in the water dish with…that would be very lonely. I don’t think I could get the cage as messy as I like it by myself.

Whites Dumpy – Boy – Dude: Alone… Wow that would be nice. Just me and my human that’s all I need… well maybe some crickets… and fresh water… television… a spritz every now and again. Yep… that’s all I need.

Whites Dumpy – Girl – Duedet: Well I don’t know. Alone. Never thought about it much…. I think I just hang out with the others on the side of the tank… hey you know without the other guys to put my feet on I would slip down the glass. So no… not alone for me and don’t tell him but Bud is kind of sexy.

Bullfrog – Boy – BigGuy: alone. Hell no… speedie is soft to sit on and I like the way she chases the gold fish over to me. But if you mean no humans I would be fine with that. My human tries to hold me too much. I hate it… but I keep smiling so he will give me crickets.

Bullfrog – Girl – Speedie: alone… I would love to be alone. BigGuy is almost 2 lbs and I am just a bit over ¾ lb… when he sits on me I feel like my eyes are popping out. But with the BigGuy there the human does not try to pick me up much… so maybe lets keep the BigGuy around… I hate it when the human grabs me and tries to tickle my stomach and make stupid sounds while talking to me.

I tried to get responses from my greys but they were too busy trying to climb the walls to answer.