FROGS ON THE SET!
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A lot of people haven’t given much thought to frogs since high school biology class, but now the creatures are doing a strange disappearing act and nobody seems to know why.
Producer Allison Argo spent more than a year filming frogs for National Geographic EXPLORER’s “The Last Frog.” Her shoots in Ecuador, England, and the United States involved more than 75 individual frogs, some as tiny as a human fingernail.
Argo found frogs to be a different challenge than the gorillas she got to know while making “The Urban Gorilla” for EXPLORER:
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“I fell in love with frogs on this project, but they can be very frustrating subjects! They’re masters of camoflauge, most are nocturnal, and they like to come out in the rain—not exactly optimal filming conditions. They’re pretty secretive creatures, and good escape artists, too! But we worked with some wonderful biologists who have an uncanny ability to find frogs, and in the end we filmed about 30 different species. Two of my favorites that we filmed were a beautiful Ecuadorian poison dart frog that looks like Spiderman, with a red and white striped body and blue polka dotted legs, and a wonderful barking tree frog that lives right here in the U.S.”
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Allison Argo |
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