He also spent two years continually exploring the Chiayi-Yunlin area. The highlight of that effort was seeing, in Kukeng Rural Township, a Rhacophorus arvalis, a rare species unique to Taiwan. As he piled up the miles in his searches, he was from time to time made a fool of by frogs.
他也曾花兩年時間在嘉義、雲林一帶繞行，最後才在古坑鄉見到台灣特有的諸羅樹蛙。