Friday, 12 September 2014

Frogs Go Home to Roost


There is a nice conservation story about the Mountain chicken frog (Leptodactylus fallax), so-called because it tastes like chicken and makes a clucking sound, being returned from UK zoos to its Caribbean location where its numbers have been decimated by a fungus (www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/sep/12/mountain-chicken-frogs-offspring-airlifted-to-caribbean-home).

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