About a month and a half ago, my lady and I were camping on the outskirts of town, and decided to go field herping and caught several Gray Tree Frogs. We decided keep the smallest one. We brought him home and set him up in a nice woodland terrarium with arboreal perches and vining plants.
He was about a little more than half an inch then, and has fed voraciously on a diet consisting mostly Woodlice, some crickets and an occasional spider. On this diet he has since doubled in size!! I know he is male partly because of his darkened and loose throat skin. Exactly how large do male Gray Tree Frogs grow?
Anyway, to get to the point, he has started to exhibit some strange new behavior patterns. For the last couple of days, I have found him hiding behind and under sections of bark. At first I thought he may be ill, as it is usually not a good sign to see arboreal animals on the ground. Yet he is still highly active, robust and eats like a pig.
That's when I noticed what it was he was doing. Like I said, a large part of his diet consists of Woodlice, a food that Tree Frogs probably don't come across often in the wild, due to their tree dwelling natures. But it seems now that he has learned to sit under and behind sections of bark, where he watches for woodlice to scamper across so he can devour them!
I was impressed with his ingenuity and adaptability, as well as his intelligence. has anybody else ever witnessed seemingly intelligent and adaptive behavior in their captive tree frogs?