AMAZING reticulated GLASS FROG male guarding several clutches of eggs on the underside of a leaf...
...overhanging a crystal clear spring fed stream on the caribbean slope of costa rica, in an amazing place called la selva verde. the 3rd photo is a different individual in a location a couple hundred meters away. the species is Hyalinobatrachium valerioi. ask me anything about the encounter or the photos.
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As if that's ever going to happen 
Your total immersion in the forest is a thing of beauty and obviously feeds your spirit. It is a thing to be longed for in the rest of us!
All he has to do is stick out that long sticky tongue when food comes flying by...or alights in his vicinity. Great system for keeping the eggs safe without his having to go without nourishment. 
My romantic soul envisioned that it was the heart. 
...a few weeks ago.....here's a pic of that:
that I've seen something here on du that I've never even imagined existed. The other was on SCE's regular Sunday thread. Can you imagine such a pattern!?
The fact that you found this little guy guarding the eggs makes it all the more special. He's doing his bit for the fambly. 
Thanks for posting these; I always, always read your threads. 
...there are some surreal frogs here.....most of them are on the caribbean coast.....i need to make more trips to that coast to get more pics.
but glass frogs are everywhere here, pretty much. i'm up at 5000 feet right now and i can hear the fleischmann's glass frogs whistling right now outside. for tiny little frogs they are loud.
here is what they look like:
