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Why Do Frog's Sing?

To call the rain to settle the dust for our journey...that's a good metaphysical reason. Although I'm sure the frog's have other ideas.

For one year my family and I lived in Hawaii, and at night through our ever open bedroom window a veritable chorus of frogs sang, coqui frogs singing their own name, "Co-kee, co-kee."

"Times's fun when

you're having flies."--

Kermit the Frog.

The Frog's Song

At first we thought they were birds, for we were used to the hoarse sound of "Croaking" frogs, not these, they gave background music to the jungle--like in the movies.

Unfortunately, not everyone in Hawaii felt as we did.

The Coqui's have many enemies and they are all people with pesticides and big spray bottles.

Many people consider these little frogs to be noise pollution.

Coqui's are not indigenous to the island--come to think of it, what is? In Hawaii, everything either rode in on boats, flew in, or was carried by the wind or waves. While it is believed that the native Hawaiians rode in on big Catamaran canoes, the Coqui's rode in on plants imported from Cuba. 

Yet, consider this, they do no harm, they eat bugs and insects, and their song is a love call--that is calling a mate. 

We no longer live in Hawaii, and in the quiet of the night I often dream that far off on a tropical island I can hear the jungle sounds of the frogs. "Coqui, coqui."