Sentences with phrase «as wood frogs»
Amphibians such as wood frogs and spotted salamanders, some of the most common amphibians in the Upper Valley, have what is called «breeding site fidelity».
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The 7 months represent a record for frozen vertebrates, and while Siberian salamanders have lived through -30 °C temperatures for shorter durations, those salamanders did not have as good a survival rate as the wood frogs.
For example, the Nature Museum's curator of herpetology, Allison Sacerdote - Velat, is working to save several regional species, such as the wood frog and smooth greensnake.
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Since late February, researchers from the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum and Lincoln Park Zoo have been monitoring levels of cortisol (known as the stress hormone) in three species that have been reintroduced or restored by the forest preserve: wood frogs (designated as «in great need of conservation» in Illinois); spotted salamanders, a rare species for northeastern Illinois; and spring peepers, a frog species whose local populations are in decline.
«This bill would identify the wood frog as the NYS amphibian.»
With one exception, the Democratic dissenters seemed to have no animus towards the wood frog, but they expressed a great deal of frustration over the Republican majority's priorities as the bill came up for discussion 41 hours after the expiration of rent regulations.
ALBANY — Even as negotiations over rent regulations, the 421 - a housing program, and other issues remain unresolved, the State Senate on Wednesday passed a measure that would designate the wood frog as the official state amphibian.
In many of the wood frog populations studied, researchers found evidence of interacting temperature and precipitation influencing population size, such as warmer summers having less of a negative effect in areas that received more precipitation.
How to Catch a Frog by Heather Ross Heather Ross's parents moved to rural Vermont in the 1970s, and she and her twin sister lived in a remote, freezing, un-insulated house, yankig the cat from under the wood stove to shove him into their bed as a reluctant hot water bottle.