QUICO: Freezing! That doesn't sound like fun! It never gets that cold down here in El Yunque it stays nice and warm and moist all year! By the way Cammo, how can you toads sleep that long without eating anything?ĬAMMO: We eat a lot of food before we hibernate in order to store-up extra body fat, that way we don't need to eat, because we're sleeping and not using-up too much energy! We sleep there without coming out until the weather warms up in the springtime, sometimes for six or seven months! The conversations are written in colloquial English and use scientific terms that should be easily understood by students.ĬAMMO: Well, here it is October already, I've got to think seriously about going into hibernation!ĬAMMO: Up here in the Tongass, when it gets real cold outside - like freezing cold - me and my toad buddies find a nice burrow and get inside it to keep warm. Each "conversation" contains a specific theme, such as hibernation, predation, metamorphosis, and mating habits, highlighting both the differences and the similarities between the two species and their separate rain forest habitats. Quico, a coqui frog living in Puerto Rico (Eleutherodactylus coqui), and Cammo, a boreal toad living in Alaska (Bufo borealis), have developed a friendship over the years and telephone each other from time-to-time to discuss specific issues and rain forest life in general. The mascots of "America's Rain Forests" are Quico, the coqui frog of the Caribbean National Forest (El Yunque) in Puerto Rico, and Cammo, the boreal toad of the Tongass National Forest in Alaska.
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