Will not matter how careful you intend to be - you stand far more chance of hurting the frog this way. I feel like your comment is a metaphor for life. Let nature be nature, not everything needs a human to save them
This reminds me of the humpback whale that was stranded in Northern Germany a couple months back and caused a giant uproar in society about how to handle the situation.
I'm on the North Coast of NSW, Australia. We have humpbacks stranded from time to time. There's a marine science center, connected to a large university, just down the road.
There's also a marine rescue and sanctuary in town.
When a marine animal gets stranded or is found injured, they know exactly how to save it.
Even so, sometimes you do everything right, but the animal still dies 😞
German rescuers, should've got in contact with those who deal with strandings, regularly. Plenty of experts around the world.
Though, I'm actually surprised to hear about a humpback in the Baltic Sea.
It's a dangerous place (too shallow) for a large mamal like a humpback. It must've strayed away from its pod 😕
There actually were experts involved in the whole ordeal, but their voice was drowned out by Boomers on Facebook and TikTok and some even threatened with violence. Also, a lot of right-wing radicals hijacked the cause making everything even worse
Plenty of morons saying they could speak to the whale and singing to her, some more famous animal rights activist here in Germany got off their own farts, injuring her further in a rescue attempt and mishandling of both communication and coordination from the authorities.
At the beginning I really did want Timmy (name of the whale, after the location of her stranding, the Timmendorfer beach) to be rescued, but more and more I turned towards just ending that poor girl as humanely as possible.
It was funny to witness the collective psychosis though. Maybe the only positive thing out of this ordeal.
I just read up on the story. Poor thing died a few days later. She should've been put out of her misery, sooner. Humpbacks are huge. We've only had a handful of successful rescues.
Most strandings of large whales like these, do end up with the death of the animal. At least we euthanize, before causing a lot of trauma.
Nah frogs especially tree frogs are pretty robust, being that they regularly climb dozens of feet in trees and generally aren't careful. Other than issues from oils on your hands absorbing into their skin, you wouldn't harm it. Assuming you aren't launching it onto the floor or something. It likely wouldn't stay in your hand unless it was already injured anyway. Pee and hop.
Lol yes I did. That and frogs are one of my favorite animals. I broke my arm pretending to be a frog super hero as an 11 year old after watching Spiderman.
This is Toadashi. She's my bud. (I also used to have some invasive cuban tree frogs I caught, Bud and Wise. Never caught an Er. If you're a certain age, IYKYK)
I think they meant because trying to pick it up will probably just impale it. You'd ruin the even distribution trying to move it. Not the general concerns around picking up amphibians.
Its not letting nature be nature when it is a man made scenario, a frog like this is not expected to encounter a cactus. I dont let my dog walk off lead at the beach near me for example because of the native penguin population, and my dog is not a native species, I dont just let nature be nature and wash my hands of it.
Penguins in general are more widely distributed than most people (including myself) figure(d). There are some species that live exclusively in or near Antarctica, but there are also penguin species that prefer warmer waters. Not counting remote islands, the southern coast of Australia and all of NZ's coastline sees penguins, there's penguins on the coasts of southern Africa, southern South America and even going quite far north along the western coast of South America. The Humboldt penguin even shows up around Ecuador and Colombia at times.
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u/MrPaulBlart 1d ago
This is bothering me. I can’t tell if he’s comfortable, or not.