Category: Frog & Amphibians Information & News

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Pig-Like Indian Purple Frog Calls To Mates Underground

Scientists document the first acoustical and statistical analysis of the frog calls of Nasikabatrachus sahyadrensis [...]
New York Proposes Recovery Plan For Northern Cricket Frog

New York Proposes Recovery Plan For Northern Cricket Frog

There are just three populations of the northern cricket frog in New York. [...]
Bats Hunt Frogs By Sensing Water Ripples

Bats Hunt Frogs By Sensing Water Ripples

When túngara frogs call out to find a mate, bats sense it. [...]

Adventure Aquarium To Host "Frogs: Nature's Messengers" Exhibit

The Adventure Aquarium in Camden, NJ opens a frog exhibit featuring more than 20 frog species. [...]
Biologists To Reintroduce California Red-legged Frog To SoCal Mountains

Biologists To Reintroduce California Red-legged Frog To SoCal Mountains

California red-legged frogs haven't been seen in Santa Monica Mountains in more than 40 years. [...]
Australia's Armoured Mist Frog Range Expanded

Australia's Armoured Mist Frog Range Expanded

Scientists move 40 Litoria lorica to new location four kilometers from only known area in which the frogs can be found. [...]

250 Groups Urge EPA To Ban Atrazine Pesticide

Pesticide is found in 75 percent of stream water and 40 percent of all groundwater tested in a study. [...]
Can’t Tell An Invasive Cane Toad From A Native Australian Frog? There’s An App For That

Can’t Tell An Invasive Cane Toad From A Native Australian Frog? There’s An App For That

Australia's Department of Environment and Conservation and the University of Western Australia develop iPhone app that enables you to tell the differe [...]
Students At Maryland’s Great Mills High School Build Salamander Fence

Students At Maryland’s Great Mills High School Build Salamander Fence

Fence will deter ATVs and other vehicles from traversing a pond that destroyed thousands of spotted salamander eggs in March. [...]
Two High Sierra Amphibians Proposed For Endangered Species Act Protections

Two High Sierra Amphibians Proposed For Endangered Species Act Protections

Animals have been decimated by livestock grazing, habitat destruction, invasive species, and disease. [...]
Tiger Salamander Crossing Tunnels In Northern California Are Working

Tiger Salamander Crossing Tunnels In Northern California Are Working

Tunnels constructed in 2011 help some 100 plus endangered Ambystoma californiense get to their breeding pond. [...]
Louisiana Proposes Endangered Status For Mississippi Gopher Frog

Louisiana Proposes Endangered Status For Mississippi Gopher Frog

Wildlife and Fisheries Commission also proposes permit system for taking or killing Eastern Diamondback rattler and two species of pine snake. [...]
Mountain Yellow-Legged Frogs Breeding Again In California's San Gabriel Mountains

Mountain Yellow-Legged Frogs Breeding Again In California's San Gabriel Mountains

U.S.G.S. biologists discover 19 new adult Rana muscosa frogs among 71 frogs and hundreds of tadpoles in a Mojave River pool of water. [...]
MSU Professor's Reptile Book Published 8 Years After His Death

MSU Professor's Reptile Book Published 8 Years After His Death

"The Amphibians and Reptiles of Michigan" published by Wayne State University Press. [...]
Texas Congressman Opposes Placing Four Salamanders On Endangered Species List

Texas Congressman Opposes Placing Four Salamanders On Endangered Species List

Fish and Wildlife Service says development could contribute to the demise of these species. [...]
Clemson University Students Share The Joy Of Herps With Girl Scouts

Clemson University Students Share The Joy Of Herps With Girl Scouts

Public outreach demonstration enables Girl Scouts to interact with Live animals and museum specimens. [...]
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