A tiny tree frog travelled 4,300 miles across the Atlantic before being found in a bunch of bananas in a Staffordshire market town.
A tiny tree frog travelled 4,300 miles across the Atlantic before being found in a bunch of bananas in aIain Holloway and his family were shocked to stumble across a stowaway while unpacking their Sainsbury’s delivery on September 24.But a visit from the RSPCA has since confirmed it is a harmless Hispaniolan common tree frog that took a trip to Tamworth from the Dominican Republic.
‘We were unpacking the shopping in the kitchen and my wife turned to me and said “look there’s a frog in the bananas” and I said “sorry, there’s a what in the bananas?”‘, Iain said. ‘We rang the RSPCA who advised us to look at the information about frogs on their website as we didn’t know whether it was a non-native species.The frog isn’t poisonous, the RSCPA has confirmed ‘In the meantime, our 12-year-old son started to do a bit of research and told us he thought the markings looked like a Hispaniolan common tree frog.
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