OMG OMG OMG Grey Treefrogs Hyla versicolor

[John]

Like Kurt said in the other thread, no one breeds these so they're definitely wild caught. How do you know they are versicolor?

[tattooed81]

You be the judge.

[John]

You can't tell by looking at them. Only ways to tell short of taking biological samples is to know where they were collected and what they sound like when they call.

[tattooed81]

http://fwie.fw.vt.edu/VHS/amphibians...%20track11.wav

[FrogFreak]

From what I heard...the call sounds like Chucky...which is the species Hyla Versicolor! Yours is a Gray Tree Frog!

[John]

The call is temperature dependent and under the right conditions the two species can sound almost the same, so unless you know how warm it was when you heard them call, it's still hard to say without a lot of experience.

[tattooed81]

They are most certainly Hyla versicolor. I spoke with the folks that brought them in. They cought them by a mud puddle wile it was raining last year. The only 2 gray tree frogs that are native to Virginia is Hyla versicolor and Hyla chrysoscelis. They cought them in the city of Rchmond. So it has to be Hyla versicolor because Hyla chrysoscelis are only found in the south east corner of this state. Unless we have an introduced species of grey tree frogs in the city of Richmond