this frog now you might be disgusted at
me doing this but it has a very noxious
skin secretion if I were to try to mouth
it like a predator that it would secrete
a foamy kind of a bitter substance that
would maybe make me not eat it this is
the gopher frog which is found in
longleaf pine environments when it’s
when it’s rubbed on the back it protects
its eyes by throwing its hand up over
the top of its eyes and I’m thinking
that’s because when it’s in a tortoise
burrow and the tortoise comes lumbering
down there’s no place for the frog to go
it protects your size by throwing its
hands up over top of them this is what I
call a small example of the magnificence
of nature this is a tract of the
Apalachicola National Forest that
they’ve recently done a prescribed burn
on the longleaf pine ecosystem is
extremely rich in species up to 150
species per two and a half acre the
eastern diamondback is the largest of
the 30 some species of rattlesnakes
rattlesnakes are only found in the New
World
North and South America the eastern is
the largest of all the rattlesnakes it
can get to about seven feet and largely
have declined all over its range and the
reason is of course the habitat the
longleaf pine ecosystem which is their
main original native habitat has been
reduced to less than two percent of its
original extent this is what happens
when a longleaf dies from lightning it
slowly burns up eventually over many
years but this is the where the sapwood
was which is very easily rotted and also
eaten by termites and way down there is
where any animal can can burrow and get
into the soft dirt this provides a
protected habitat for so many animals
out here there’s a little creature a
nymph of a gigantic Roche Palmetto bug
and a lot of people don’t think too well
of roaches but you know they’re a
life-form
I’m not going to do it but you know if I
had nothing else to eat that’s probably
a pretty succulent little mouthful there
sands sticky legs get caught in your
teeth
me doing this but it has a very noxious
skin secretion if I were to try to mouth
it like a predator that it would secrete
a foamy kind of a bitter substance that
would maybe make me not eat it this is
the gopher frog which is found in
longleaf pine environments when it’s
when it’s rubbed on the back it protects
its eyes by throwing its hand up over
the top of its eyes and I’m thinking
that’s because when it’s in a tortoise
burrow and the tortoise comes lumbering
down there’s no place for the frog to go
it protects your size by throwing its
hands up over top of them this is what I
call a small example of the magnificence
of nature this is a tract of the
Apalachicola National Forest that
they’ve recently done a prescribed burn
on the longleaf pine ecosystem is
extremely rich in species up to 150
species per two and a half acre the
eastern diamondback is the largest of
the 30 some species of rattlesnakes
rattlesnakes are only found in the New
World
North and South America the eastern is
the largest of all the rattlesnakes it
can get to about seven feet and largely
have declined all over its range and the
reason is of course the habitat the
longleaf pine ecosystem which is their
main original native habitat has been
reduced to less than two percent of its
original extent this is what happens
when a longleaf dies from lightning it
slowly burns up eventually over many
years but this is the where the sapwood
was which is very easily rotted and also
eaten by termites and way down there is
where any animal can can burrow and get
into the soft dirt this provides a
protected habitat for so many animals
out here there’s a little creature a
nymph of a gigantic Roche Palmetto bug
and a lot of people don’t think too well
of roaches but you know they’re a
life-form
I’m not going to do it but you know if I
had nothing else to eat that’s probably
a pretty succulent little mouthful there
sands sticky legs get caught in your
teeth
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