The reticulated tree frog ("Dendropsophus reticulatus") is a frog that lives in Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador and Colombia. Scientists have seen this frog between 40 and 1037 meters above sea level.
The adult male frog is 2.0 to 2.9 cm long and the adult female frog is 2.8 to 4.0 cm long. The males sing for females near temporary or permanent bodies of water. The females lay eggs all year. They lay eggs on the tops of leaves about 30 cm over the water. When the tadpoles hatch, they fall into the water.
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Ox (GS band)
Ox (オックス, "Okkusu") is a Japanese GS band formed in 1968 to 1971. They were well known with their albums and songs, but they changed members throughout the late 1960s and early 70s.
The band was created in November 1967, led by Toshio Fukui and Yuji Iwata, who were former members of The Kings (ザ・キングス), another GS band. Members were Toshio Fukui and Yuji Iwata, as well members from other music shops such as Shiro Okada and Norio Sugiyama at the McCoys, Ai Akamatsu at Hataris, and Atsushi Kuriyama at Sanders. On December 1, the group will take the first stage at "Number Ichiban" in Osaka. Hideto Noguchi, who was enrolled in the backbone at the time of formation, officially joined the group on December 28.
In January 1968, Norio Sugiyama and Atsushi Kuriyama left the group to pursuit their job career, but they still played an active role in the Kansai performance of the Swedish instrumental band "The Spotnicks" who had came to Japan in January. The Ox's "Goodbye Performance", which was decided to move to Tokyo on March 17, was so popular in Kansai that it was held at a club in . After moving to Tokyo, they were camp at the 2DK apartment in Shibuya.
Before their debut, the group performed at a jazz cafe in Tokyo. With the performance of them falling off the stage and fainting because they were o enthusiastic during the show, it quickly became popular, especially fan girls. In May 1968, they made their record debut with "Girlfriend" (6th on the ). The group became poplar as Hideto Noguchi's sweet singing voice (who had joined the band in January) and Ai Akamatsu's fairy tale atmosphere attracted many girls and their popularity soared. Later, they released their many hit songs such as "Dancing Seventeen" (28th on the Oricon chart), "Tears of Swan" (7th on the Oricon chart) and "I'm On Fire" (18th on the Oricon chart) were skipped one after another, becoming a super popular group alongside and .
The use as a concert venue was often refused by theaters and local governments due to protests by the PTA and the Jijoren, as well as by the media and the educational community. (Ai Akamatsu later revealed that his fainting was just acting. Ai Akamatsu then suddenly disappeared on May 5, 1969, and after appeared a month latter, he left the band after getting a call from a music distributor. To find a new replacement, Hideto and Toshio meet Yûsuke Natsu (later became a TV and film actor) and he joined the band who was planning to participate in the formation of another GS band, Olive, on May 10, but the GS gere was already sluggish around this time, and the popularity of Ox was beginning to fade. On May 31, 1971, when the GS boom came to an end, they perforce their last concert the at Ikebukuro's jazz cafe "ACB" and was finally disbanded in mid-1971.
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Les McKeown
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McKeown was born in Broomhouse, Edinburgh, on 12 November 1955.
McKeown died at his home on 20 April 2021, aged 65.
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