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Frog: JEAN KumAgAI

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Amphibious Adventure

It was a slow Thursday afternoon when IEEE
Spectrum Senior Editor Jean Kumagai [above, left]
popped into the cubicle of Photo Editor Randi
Silberman [above, right] to ask if she'd like to
come along on a trip to northeastern Mexico.
The assignment was to cover the initial testing
of an underwater robot in a deep sinkhole.
Silberman jumped at the chance. "Normally
I sit at my desk talking to photographers about
the amazing things I'm sending them off to
do," she says. "This time I'd get to do those
things myself."
And then she encountered Toilet
Frog [right]. Arriving at the sprawling ranch where the robot team
was based, she and Kumagai
discovered an enterprising
amphibian that had taken up
residence in the ranch's septic
system, swimming back and forth
between its bathrooms. "Randi didn't
seem to mind the frog that much," Kumagai says.
"But I felt like every time I turned around, there
it was-in the shower, on the kitchen floor, even
in the toilet bowl. Very weird."
Despite those run-ins with the wildlife, they
captured a great story. Says Silberman, "I never
thought I'd find myself climbing down a cliff
holding on to just a rope, then getting into a kayak
and paddling around to frame the perfect shot."
But she did all that, and more, to document the
expedition. Her photos and Kumagai's text come
together in "Swimming to Europa," in this issue.
Back in New York City, the two found themselves reminiscing fondly about the characters
they'd met in Mexico. Even Toilet Frog.
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