Just north of Milwaukee, you’ll find a frog emporium full of some of the most unique animals in the world. There are frogs so transparent you can see their organs. Frogs in colors you won’t find in nature.
Step inside Rainforest Rick’s frog emporium. Rick Boyd is an associate professor in Marquette University’s physics department, but on the side, he likes to breed frogs.
“People might say oh yeah he’s got frogs and they think of the traditional Wisconsin green frogs, and then they come here, and they’re like, whoa these are beautiful,” Boyd said.
Boyd is considered one of the only people in the United States to have successfully bred a granulosa glass frog in captivity. It’s the kind that you can see its organs. Similarily, he bred another transparent tree frog. Boyd even bred a frog that has a unique pattern of blue and gold that he calls Marquette colors…