Eggs laid on the undersides of leaves by the glass frogs Hyalinobatrachium fleischmanni depend entirely on fathers for care. And, says Jesse Delia of Boston University, «some are just bad dads.» Leer más.





Enrique García-Muñoz, Miguel Angel Carretero. Acta Herpetologica. 8(2). 2013. Distribution modelling usually makes inferences correlating species presence and environmental variables but does not take biotic relations into account. Alternative approaches based on a mechanistic understanding of biological processes are now being applied. Regarding lacertid lizards, physiological traits such as preferred body temperature (Tp) are well known to correlate with several physiological optima. Leer más.
![]() | Trampas con ratones usados como cebo y perros adiestrados para localizar culebras son las dos medidas incluidas en el proyecto piloto impulsado por el Consell de Ibiza para intentar que las culebras de herradura, escalera o bastarda no se asienten en la isla. En los últimos 11 años, desde que empezaron a avistarse, se han atrapado unos 200 ejemplares que han causado mucha preocupación entre la población. Leer más. |
Researchers at the University of Boulder Colorado, University of Zurich and Copenhagen University have developed a new method to predict how susceptible an amphibian is to a frog-killing fungus wiping out amphibians all over the world. The test looks at the antifungal properties of skin mucus that contains skin bacteria and chemicals secreted by the frog itself. Leer más.