A Florida man’s home security camera was repeatedly activated by an unknown object that was initially misidentified as a human hand and an octopus before being identified as a Cuban tree frog.
Dean Gordon claims that at 1:40 am on Sunday, he received an alert from his home security camera while he was sound sleeping at his Lehigh Acres residence.
Gordon claimed he looked at the smartphone video from the camera and was unsure of what he was seeing in the backyard.
He claimed that a second warning from the doorbell camera outside his front door provided a somewhat clearer view.
Gordon explained that the second video was taken from the front. “He halted at that point, and I could see the leg and, I believe, the eye. The frog’s large eye and legs were visible.”Gordon asked his neighbors to help identify the creature after uploading his video to Facebook. Locals claim that the creature resembles a Cuban tree frog, an invasive species that is known to live in the area.
According to several commenters, they saw the amphibians climbing their own cameras.
The frogs are skilled climbers, according to Matthew Metcalf, a visiting faculty at Florida Gulf Coast University.
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What is Cuban Frog?
It can be challenging to recognize the Cuban Treefrog. These invasive frogs can change colors and come in white, gray, green, or brown.
Some Cuban Treefrogs have dark spots or streaks on their backs, while others are almost completely colorless.
A number of native treefrog species can be found in Florida; click the “Florida’s Frogs” link on the left to learn more about these and other frog species.
Cuba, the Cayman Islands, and the Bahamas are the native habitats of the Cuban Treefrog (Osteopilus septentrionalis). Inadvertently transported to Florida in the 1920s, these treefrogs were most likely hitchhikers in ship cargo containers.
Cuban Treefrogs are regarded as invasive in Florida (as well as other tropical locations) due to their propensity to damage our native ecosystems as well as their numerous negative effects on humans.
The tadpoles of Cuban Treefrogs fight with local tadpoles for food and space, and they consume at least five distinct species of native frogs in addition to the rare tiny snake or lizard.
Cuban Treefrogs are widespread in cities, where they congregate near lights on building exteriors and hunt for insects. They frequently invade birdhouses, poop on walls and windows (creating unsightly stains), and lay eggs in fish ponds and bird baths.
Cuban Treefrogs occasionally enter homes where they hang out in toilets and clog sink drains. Large Cuban treefrogs are known to short-circuit utility switches, resulting in expensive power outages.
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