#dryophytes chrysoscelis

Cope's Gray Tree Frog (Dryophytes chrysoscelis), taken June 15, 2026, in Georgia, US

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today's funky frog of the day: cope's gray treefrog (Dryophytes chrysoscelis)!!! these friends are very similar to the gray treefrog. their breeding season is from may to august, and they are capable of surviving temperatures as cold as -8 degrees Celsius.

Dryophytes chrysoscelis, Common names: Grey tree frog, Cope’s grey tree frog, Indiana tree frog, Southern grey tree frog,

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Habitat: Live in trees in woodlands, usually high up in the trees. Have been known to travel to more open, sometimes even urban areas, in order to find a water source, as they are one of the tree frog species that mate in water in the spring.

Found in: The US & Canada 

Fun fact(s): They are easily mistaken for their sister species, dryophytes versicolor, also called the grey tree frog, but sometimes differentiated by being called the Northern grey tree frog. The only easily identifiable difference between the two is their mating call, the other differences are in their distribution and number of chromosomes. 

Another only-sorta frog of the day, wherein I talk about the alternate colourations of a frog I’ve already written about here. This time it’s about my previous entry, dryophytes chrysoscelis, Cope’s grey tree frog! 

The albino colouration of this guy is pretty cool- they’re PINK! Which is the rarest colour for a frog to be!