“From what we were told by CBP staff, the container in which it was found was sealed shut in Syria and had not been opened until it arrived in Houston,” says Stan. The frog showed no ill effects from its long trip in the dark from the Middle East. “Our research indicates that only one other zoo has this animal–the Dierenpark Emmen Zoo in the Netherlands and at last count they had 23 of them,” says Stan. Stan was happy to make the Houston Zoo the frog’s new home. Houston Zoo Herpetology Curator Stan Mays and Senior Keeper Chris Bednarski identified the stowaway as a Middle Eastern tree frog, specifically a Savigny’s tree frog. Fish and Wildlife specialists who contacted the Houston Zoo looking for assistance to identify the little hitchhiker. The frog was captured quickly and delivered to U.S. There, sitting quietly on a pallet of imported stone, was a tree frog. 16 when CBP agriculture specialists working at the Port of Houston’s Bayport Terminal opened up a shipping container that had arrived on a ship from the Middle East. Not much surprises the CBP staff, but that changed on Sept. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agriculture specialists to intercept pests arriving in shipping containers from different parts of the world. (Photo courtesy of the Houston Zoo)Īt the Port of Houston it is the job of U.S. A Savigny’s Tree Frog caught a ride from Syria to Texas and found a home at the Houston Zoo.
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