Frogs that migrate across the front lawn of Linda Nussbaum’s little house southeast of Loveland usually don’t garner much attention.
But on Sunday, something caught her eye. A bright green frog about the size of a dollar bill was making its way toward the ditch that flows by her home.
One, two, three, four … five legs? “This is the second time I’ve seen one,” Nussbaum said. “One in Minnesota, and now here.”
By Monday, she had named it Kermit, fed it crickets and called Colorado State University’s College of Natural Resources to gauge its interest in her discovery.
“They were just too busy to deal with it,” Nussbaum said. “They flat-out told me they weren’t interested.”
CSU biology professor W. Chris Funk, who specializes in the study of amphibians, said such deformities were not so uncommon, but deferred to a University of Colorado colleague in the field, Dr. Pieter Johnson.
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