Comments on: San Francisco Tropical

By: dc

dc — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 19:27:31 +0000

Someone left a comment on the frog photo at Flickr alerting me, and I looked around a bit on the web to confirm it (there are hundreds of photos of those frogs posted online, all in exactly the same position, and only a small percentage of people seem to realize that they are fake). I assume there was some little notice at the Cal Academy telling visitors that the frogs are fake, but I didn’t see it (the real ones are poisonous, which is presumably why they put fake ones in the open rain forest display).

By: ng

ng — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 14:26:01 +0000

!!! How did you learn that they’re fake?

By: dc

dc — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 09:04:13 +0000

I just found out those frogs are fake. $25 for a ticket and they hoodwink you into photographing fake frogs. Ruth was right—the colors are painted on.

By: Amie Wong

Amie Wong — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 18:23:47 +0000

Beautiful photos! We’d love to have you share these on our Flickr group if you’re interested. We’re at: http://www.flickr.com/groups/calacademy.

By: ruth gutmann

ruth gutmann — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 01:00:30 +0000

I wonder did the great white sharks die as a result of their diet?

I do love the frogs, the colors shiny, almost as if painted on. The black bird with its dark red head and neck is beautiful.

By: Gene

Gene — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 04:00:16 +0000

Nice pics! Your camera did well in the low light. My wife and I were just at the Academy of Science after the West Coast Green building conference.