It’s weird to think that you can’t have the one without the
other. Those fixed leaves in the water offer shelter as well as camouflage from
all sorts of predators from both above and below to whatever’s just spawned out
of the eggs. The leaves might even catch algae for them to munch on too. No
wonder it’s easy for a frog to choose to settle here, but I often wonder how he
manages to find it in the first place. Is he a stray from another pond? Has he deserted
the army to form his own troop? I wonder if the tadpoles have anything to do
with fertilising the flower. Nevertheless, it’s quite a find in such a wild
patch of land. The conservationists might have had something to do with it, and
they probably don’t want to publicise much of what they’ve achieved until they’ve
observed the best bits themselves.
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