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).
This blog may help people explore some of the 'hidden' issues involved in certain media treatments of environmental and scientific issues. Using personal digital images, it's also intended to emphasise seasonal (and other) changes in natural history of the Swansea (South Wales) area. The material should help participants in field-based modules and people generally interested in the natural world. The views are wholly those of the author.
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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Noted a Curlew ( Numenius arquata ) on the Loughor estuary at Bynea.
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