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I just thought I'd share some pics of Legs my pacific treefrog with 3 left front feet. A co-worker of mine found her as a metamorph in a local creek. Aside from the extra limbs she seems fine and is now a young adult. She shares a tank with Neville, a rough skinned newt. Hope you enjoy!
-Alice
 

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Frogs are environmental indicators. You should go back and see if there are any more deformed frogs/tadpoles in that area.
 
The left front foot / leg works normally. I'm not sure how much movement she has in the extra limbs. The middle one is almost as big as the front one but the hind one is a bit smaller. Sometimes when she's hanging on the glass it looks like she might have moved the limbs a bit, but I'm not sure if she actually moved them or if the feet are adhereing to the glass due to the way the legs are positioned. In any case, her ability to move the back two left front legs seems minimal.

When she was cuaght there were many metamorphs in the area, but she was the only deformed one. I don't think that my co-worker has been back to the creek since.

-Alice
 
That is very cool.


I have seen two American Bullfrogs with 6 legs...but they both had one additional leg in the middle of their torso on both sides...like a bug.

Both were deceased and preserved, one at Fermilab (National Accelerator Laboratory)...they scientist had found it inside the accelerator ring...and the other my High School Biology teacher had in formaldehyde.
 
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