Sentences with phrase «wild frogs»

«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 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 chytrid.

When Noriko Iwai of the University of Tokyo, Japan, captured wild frogs, she found that males have longer and thicker pseudothumbs than females.

When Voyles and her team looked at the skin secretions of wild frogs that survived a Bd epidemic, they found that they slowed the growth of the fungus much more effectively than secretions from captive frogs that had not yet encountered the pathogen.

«Many wildlife species have played important roles in cancer research; for example, one of the first virus - induced cancers studied was in wild frog populations,» said Dr. Stetter.

This is Arenal's only wild frog night tour.

In the cage they set up for the experiment in Panama, scientists used pressurised air to inflate the robot's vocal sacs thus mimicking the wild frogs.

Can This Controversial Practice Save Ecuador's Wild Frogs?