
Originally Posted by
Dace
I was actually replying to someone else and it was concerning gray tree frogs.
seriously though, if you gave a dog it's own 7 acre field to run around in whenever it wants and a swimming pool, you'd probably see the dog using them all the time and it would definitely appreciate it. That doesn't mean a dog needs a giant field and swimming pool to be happy and healthy.
I would have to disagree that tree frogs (is can't speak for white's of course, but local species at least) have home ranges "covering miles." I have seen the same spring peepers return to the same exact spot on a window night after night for months, coming back every year, and know people who have grays do the same thing, even sleeping in the exact same spot week after week and making a short evening commute to the porch light. I have a toad in the yard who lives in the same rock pile and calls in the same puddle of water that forms every year. Even in the confines of a vivarium tree frogs tend to sleep in the same spot. Just because animals are wild and undomesticated doesn't mean they live a nomadic lifestyle that requires huge amounts space.