Tadpoles!

On one of the creek days we found and brought home a couple of tadpoles.  One was quite large and had small back legs.  The other was a lot smaller, but I was pretty sure they were both bull frog tadpoles.  They have been hanging out in a tank, eating lots of boiled lettuce, and growing.

The larger one, which the girls named Ribbity-Hopper, now has all of it's legs, and its tail is almost gone.  The larger one, Daisy, now looks like Ribbity-Hopper looked when we brought them home.  It is large, with rear legs.  One really interesting thing that we discovered was that both of Ribbity-Hopper's front legs did not emerge at the same time.  In fact, I thought for a while that we were going to have a three-legged frog, as the second front leg emerged a few days after the first.  The both look great now, though!

Here are a few pictures that were taken about a week and a half ago.

Ribbity-Hopper

Daisy