Nyctibatrachus minimus, the tiny nightfrog of India.

Conraua goliath, the goliath frog of West Africa.

We shall pick up an existence by its frogs. Wise men have tried other ways. They have tried to understand our state of being, by grasping at its stars, or its arts, or its economics. But, if there is an underlying oneness of all things, it does not matter where we begin, whether with stars, or laws of supply and demand, or frogs, or Napoleon Bonaparte. One measures a circle, beginning anywhere.Charles Fort, Lo!

After I posted my blog (“Incredibly Tiny Frog Discovered”) on the new Indian species here, cryptobuddy David Pescovitz posted a notice about it over at Boing Boing (“Tiny new frog discovered”).

Intriguingly, the first comment maker at Boing Boing wrote: “An interesting contrast would be to put this picture side-by-side with a snap of the world’s largest frog sitting on a manhole cover.”

I could not find any accommodating photos of the world’s largest frog, the goliath frog of West Africa, on sewer lids. But I did locate some interesting ones, nevertheless (above and below).

It seems a few photographers have folks holding the frogs near the camera, to give an illusion of an even bigger frog.

If you ask me, a frog that is 15 inches long and weighs 7 pounds, looking almost as big as a deer fawn doesn’t need any help looking larger.

Indeed, we shall pick up an existence by its frogs.