This reclusive nocturnal frog tends to be very shy, and likes to live in holes, burrows and tunnels during the day. It does not dig its own tunnels, but rather utilizes those that have been dug by other animals, most often gopher tortoises. Leer más.
Hopping around in the Peruvian jungle, near the border with Brazil, is a menagerie of tiny poison dart frogs. Their wealth of colors and patterns—some have golden heads atop white-swirled bodies, others wear full-torso tattoos of black and neon-yellow stripes—act as the world’s worst advertisement to predators: Don’t eat me, I’m toxic. But why have so many designs evolved when a single one might do? Leer más.
Almost three years’ worth of surveys into herpetofauna diversity in Bahia, Brazil have resulted in listings of more than 100 amphibian and reptile species, filling in valuable distribution gaps and underpinning conservation efforts there. Leer más.
Ayer nos encontramos Antonio Lastra, Fernando Arce y un servidor con el cadáver (ejemplar asesinado) de una culebra de 59 cm de longitud en la costa de Ajo. Leer más.
La Consejería de Medio Ambiente de la Junta de Andalucía ha organizado un taller práctico de formación para el seguimiento y conservación de anfibios y reptiles, dirigido a los voluntarios que participan anualmente en el programa ‘Andarríos‘. La jornada se celebrará del 4 al 6 de noviembre en el municipio jiennense de Andújar y tiene como objetivo dar a conocer el programa de Seguimiento de Anfibios y Reptiles de España (SARE). Leer más.
