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    edit: shame on me, seems i didn't read your first post thoroughly so lots of rubbish-info coming up >.< sooorry!

    i'm not an expert at all but actually i've read (and heard ^^) that females might call too. mine are just doing it when the others climb on them as well, but seems there are females who call "just for fun"... (in german forums/pages they say EVERYWHERE they are very hard to distinguish, since white's' croaking is not a reliable "source" AT ALL to tell what sex they have.. (?))

    you can (try to) distinguish them by those brown nuptial pads on their thumbs/arms, if they have them, and the males have a more flabby (especially after calling) and darker/more yellowish throat than the girls, who's is really white and looks somewhat compact or boney(?). dunno how to explain that properly, but i think you'll see what i mean if you compare a few boys' and girls' throats. (edit: looking at your's throat i'd dare to guess it might be a boy..? and "it" looks more boyish to me in general. but just gut feeling. if at all...) in my opinion that's the best way to find out.

    and seems that the guys tend to have larger feet to climb on the girls... (never heard of that before or after but the woman at the pet store chose our second girl like that and it seems to really be a girl. but don't ask me how large an average frog's foot is.)
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    Quote Originally Posted by maneeta View Post
    ...you can (try to) distinguish them by those brown nuptial pads on their thumbs/arms, if they have them, and the males have a more flabby (especially after calling) and darker/more yellowish throat than the girls, who's is really white and looks somewhat compact or boney(?). dunno how to explain that properly, but i think you'll see what i mean if you compare a few boys' and girls' throats.
    here's a couple pictures of my juvenile male (Dumper), he has the stereotypical saggy dark throat and visible nuptial pads. Jade has no physical male traits and a very white throat. He/she only called that one night.... silent since while Dumper calls daily.

    Maybe I'll never know, butit doesn't really matter to me as I don't know of any behavioural differences between the sexes (are there any?)
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    I really don't see nuptial pads. The throat I'll grant you though, but female treefrogs can have puffy throats, just no real vocal sacs.
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    I really don't see nuptial pads. The throat I'll grant you though, but female treefrogs can have puffy throats, just no real vocal sacs.
    on the right picture under his left thumb there is a brown spec... it's a bad angle, but you can see part of it.

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    I see it.
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