Sentences with phrase «in wild frog»

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We believe this is accomplished by actually spending time outdoors, with our hands in the dirt and feet on the ground, planting trees, clearing brush, finding frogs in a creek, making a meal out of wild plants, learning how to turn a piece of wood into an instrument, or creating natural dyes with berries.

Transparent frogs exist in the wild as well, says Castroviejo - Fisher, who has discovered several new species of so - called glass frogs.

One of the first animals to benefit could be the Panamanian golden frog, a striking yellow toad now extinct in the wild that has become a symbol for amphibian conservationists (see right).

«As far as we know, frogs are the only animals to expel foreign objects through the bladder,» says Christopher Tracy of Charles Darwin University in Alice Springs, Australia, who made the discovery while monitoring wild frogs with implanted trackers.

In the field results of a study by Brianna Lam, a graduate student in the J.M.U. Department of Biology, published in the journal Biological Conservation in 2009 (as well results published by Vredenburg and Harris in 2008 in Abstracts of the General Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology), revealed that wild mountain yellow - legged frog populations in the Sierras differed greatly in their amount of cutaneous J. lividuIn the field results of a study by Brianna Lam, a graduate student in the J.M.U. Department of Biology, published in the journal Biological Conservation in 2009 (as well results published by Vredenburg and Harris in 2008 in Abstracts of the General Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology), revealed that wild mountain yellow - legged frog populations in the Sierras differed greatly in their amount of cutaneous J. lividuin the J.M.U. Department of Biology, published in the journal Biological Conservation in 2009 (as well results published by Vredenburg and Harris in 2008 in Abstracts of the General Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology), revealed that wild mountain yellow - legged frog populations in the Sierras differed greatly in their amount of cutaneous J. lividuin the journal Biological Conservation in 2009 (as well results published by Vredenburg and Harris in 2008 in Abstracts of the General Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology), revealed that wild mountain yellow - legged frog populations in the Sierras differed greatly in their amount of cutaneous J. lividuin 2009 (as well results published by Vredenburg and Harris in 2008 in Abstracts of the General Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology), revealed that wild mountain yellow - legged frog populations in the Sierras differed greatly in their amount of cutaneous J. lividuin 2008 in Abstracts of the General Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology), revealed that wild mountain yellow - legged frog populations in the Sierras differed greatly in their amount of cutaneous J. lividuin Abstracts of the General Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology), revealed that wild mountain yellow - legged frog populations in the Sierras differed greatly in their amount of cutaneous J. lividuin the Sierras differed greatly in their amount of cutaneous J. lividuin their amount of cutaneous J. lividum.

In lab experiments using captive - bred mountain yellow - legged frogs from eggs collected in the wild, Harris and his colleagues determined that the bacterium Janthinobacterium lividum, cultured from wild frogs, was protective against chytriIn lab experiments using captive - bred mountain yellow - legged frogs from eggs collected in the wild, Harris and his colleagues determined that the bacterium Janthinobacterium lividum, cultured from wild frogs, was protective against chytriin the wild, Harris and his colleagues determined that the bacterium Janthinobacterium lividum, cultured from wild frogs, was protective against chytrid.

Now researchers in California and Virginia have identified symbiotic bacteria living on amphibians» skins that protects them from the deadly fungal disease, and later this summer the scientists will collect some of the microbial samples, culture them in the lab, and use the product to inoculate some frogs in California's Sierra Nevada to see if the approach stops chytrid in the wild.

Some of the frogs conserved at New York's Bronx Zoo were later bred in Tanzania and are now living in the wild near an artificial system of sprinklers

To find out if frogs in the wild showed hermaphroditism, Hayes dissected juveniles from numerous sites.

«The individual differences contribute to increased stability of the moths which confirms conclusions from previous studies of frogs, lizards and snakes that colour variation is a key to success in the wild,» he continues.

In the wild, dart - poison frogs are very territorial: Frogs that have staked out a good piece of ground will attack any rival calling on their frogs are very territorial: Frogs that have staked out a good piece of ground will attack any rival calling on their Frogs that have staked out a good piece of ground will attack any rival calling on their turf.

One of the conditions which applies is that imported fish should not be released into the natural aquatic environment but rather held in aquaria or «ornamental waters» in order to avoid any risk of introducing diseases to our farmed and wild fish stocks — or to frogs.

In the wild, the movement of the frog's vocal sacs as they inflate before they croak can be picked up by echolocation, so the bats could use both listening (eavesdropping) and echolocation for hunting.

One of these is the Panama Amphibian Rescue and Conservation Project run by the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, which collected healthy frogs before the outbreak in the hopes of releasing them back into the wild.

«We learned to breed them in captivity and are now releasing Atelopus varius in areas where the epidemic has passed, so it is extremely important for us to realize that the defenses of these frogs may be weaker than the defenses of frogs that survived the epidemic in the wild,» said Roberto Ibáñez, study co-author, STRI staff scientist, and in - country director of the Panama Amphibian Rescue and Conservation Project.

Lots of Australian scientific researchers have worked with cane toads, because they are very common in the suburbs of many coastal cities and towns, are easy to collect and keep, and there aren't the kind of ethical objections to removing them from the wild, or killing them, as apply to native frogs.

Many wild populations of animals and plants are profoundly threatened by exotic diseases — chytrid fungus in frogs, sylvatic plague in black - footed ferrets, Rapid Ohi'a Death in the keystone ohi'a trees of Hawaii, avian malaria in the forest birds of Hawaii.

His Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley (2002) included the first field experiments to successfully reverse the decline of a threatened frog in the wild.

This Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Hearts of Stone guide provides detail on how to beat Toad Prince boss, the huge frog that players will encounter in Evil's Soft First Touches quest.

While a wolf is a big beast, wild and ferocious, the French bulldog looks like a timid frog sitting in a pond hiding from the dangers of the world.

In the wild, they typically consume other frogs, and they are difficult to transition to fish and mice.

We saw capuchin and howler monkeys, anteaters, sloths, gorgeous butterflies and hummingbirds, scarlet macaws, toucans and hundreds of other beautiful birds, peccaries and coatimundi, and many frog and lizard varieties in the wild, plus stunning flowers of every shape and colour.

Located in the craggily handsome northern tablelands, the park's ancient rainforest setting makes it well suited to everything from mountain - biking and wild camping to creek - swimming and frog - spotting.

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By late 2007, this frogs» distinctive call was silenced in the wild.

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