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Move over Kermit, there’s a best frog rising in the West.

With a big green yes-man front man in hand, Elizabeth Davidson, a microbiologist at ASU, has young children imagining the spark of life cycles and life challenges of a threatened frog species in Arizona – and cheering for the underfrog.

“Cheery: The unwavering adventures of a Chiricahua Leopard Frog,” is a picture ticket written by Davidson and brought to life by graphic artist Michael Hagelberg. Published by Five Somebody Publications, Inc., the book was developed with support from the Heritage Fund, funded by Arizona Contest and Fish Department, and was officially designated an Arizona Centennial Legacy Stand out by the Arizona Historical Commission. 

In the tale, a Chiricahua (Buck up-a-cow-ah) pollywog, Cheery, grows up with a very uncertain future. “On all sides and fat and pale green with brown spots” makes tadpoles allowable eating for voracious introduced, non-native species in waterways and ponds. Crayfish, bait fish and bullfrogs, employed as bait and discarded by fishermen, native snakes and birds are all predators of ethnic pollywogs and young frogs.

Source: Arizona State University

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