Next, a trip a little further afield to another great froggy spot, halfway to the town of Wulai. A bit of a hike up the road, but always worth it.

Odorrana swinhoana, a whistling frog usually found calling from rock walls beside or in the middle of rushing streams.



Love is in the air for Babina adenopleura, the Olive Frog. Or rather, it's in a stagnant bathtub off to one side of a bamboo farm.


Also in the bamboo farm, Kurixalus eiffingeri, a close relative of K. idiootocus shown earlier, though this cute little frog tends to breed in bamboo stumps, tree boles or caves. It practices parental care, with the male guarding the eggs until they hatch, and then the female feeding the tadpoles trophic eggs. Also occurs on a couple of small, outlying Japanese islands.




The same species, but from a rock wall bordering a road.


The pretty Chinese Treefrog, Hyla chinensis. Incredibly noisy on rainy nights, when crowds of them congregate at breeding pools (or in this case, buckets). I must admit, I took a few eggs from a horribly fouled bucket for raising and releasing.




More Rhacophorus prasinatus - an adult, and a couple of weeks later, a juvenile.



And a gnarly-looking Microhyla fissipes. The combined noise from choruses of this frog and H. chinensis was absolutely deafening the night I took this.