The French eat about 80 million frogs every year in stews and frog legs. A French council in Vern-Sur-Seiche, Brittany have done something of a differ
The French eat about 80 million frogs every year in stews and frog legs. A French council in Vern-Sur-Seiche, Brittany have done something of a different sort in constructing frog tunnels along a road where there were high mortality rates for frogs that try to cross the road to reach breeding ponds.
The French don’t eat French frogs though as frog hunting has been banned since 1980 due to over harvesting. The French get their frogs from Asia.
The construction of wildlife corridors have had mixed success, at lesat in North America. A tiger salamander crossing in California, constructed in 2011, has been fairly successful in helping the amphibians cross the road. A study of turtle ecopassages in Ontario, Canada, found that turtles hardly used the passages and were still getting killed on the roads, and the animals that were using the pasasges regularly were ducks and geese. They concluded that when these corridors are built, the target species must be kept in mind during construction to enhance the chances that the species will use it.
John Virata keeps a western hognose snake, a ball python, two corn snakes, a king snake, and two leopard geckos. His first snake, a California kingsnake, was purchased for $5. His first pet reptile was a green anole that arrived in a small box via mail order.