Conservation of forest amphibians is dependent on finding the right balance between management for timber production and meeting species’ habitat requirements. Leer más.
It’s a somewhat cloudy day. You figure a storm will be coming and then raindrops start to fall. This doesn’t register as abnormal until you hear a small thud on the ground. Then you see a frog, limbs quivering, writhing on its back. Before you can figure out what has just happened, more frogs are falling around you. In fact, thousands of frogs are falling. Leer más.
Today, conservation biologists from around the world remain locked in a race against amphibian extinction. In Panama, researchers who care about conserving the country’s abundant biodiversity are re-evaluating the cards they were handed, recognizing just how high the deck is stacked against their efforts. Leer más.
El concejal de Medio Ambiente del Ayuntamiento, Jaime Pérez, ha inaugurado esta muestra, desarrollada por la Asociación Herpetológica Española (AHE) en colaboración con otras entidades como la Asociación de Naturalistas del Sureste (ANSE) y el Centro de Recuperación de Anfibios y Reptiles de Cataluña (CRARC). Leer más.
Most reptile sex pheromones so far described are lipid molecules too large to diffuse through the air; instead, they are detected via direct contact (tongue-flicking) with another animal’s body or substrate-deposited trails, using the vomeronasal system. leer más.
