Just watched the Chameleon piece from It’s a Jungle Out There with Theo, who was asking about camouflage. That’s one creepy tongue!
Theo shows the owl he made:
A homeschool project, was accompanied by many owl noises
The lecturer at work:
This is Theo is lecture mode
Theo’s Snowflake
Tadpoles! Julie and Theo check in on our tadpole aquarium.
Video on Frogs from PBS’s Nature (watchable online):
“It is the greatest mass extinction since the dinosaurs. Population by population, species by species, amphibians are vanishing off the face of the Earth. Large scale die-offs of frogs around the world have prompted scientists to take desperate measures to try to save those frogs they can. Will it ever be safe to return the frogs back to the ecosystem from which they were taken?”
Watched by Theo, 6/6/09, after collecting three tadpoles and making a tadpole aquarium.
Introducing Oliver the Tadpole: Adopted from the creek in the backyard and dubbed “Oliver” by Theo. He’s the guy up near the top. The big black thing is a rock (so he can climb as his legs grow in). The green is chopped up lettuce. As I write, Theo and Julie are out collecting more of a family: Tree the Tadpole and Wall-E the Tadpole. While tadpole identification is difficult, the most common amphibians in our backyard are Fowler’s Toads.
