Amphibian parental care is amazing!
Vági et al. recently found terrestriality & parental care /offspring protection co-evolved, independently arose multiple times, & led to less sexual size dimorphism
Read more: https://t.co/ZRXa0Hvk32
Savage's Glass Frog: PC - VF Luna-Mora
“When people tell me that I’m a hero because I save frogs, I tell them no, the frogs are the heroes for holding on. My actions are my message to the world: these species are dying and we can and we must do something about it", Andrés Charrier says. https://t.co/zzFnNiyQpg
NEW PAPER Living with the enemy: Facilitating amphibian coexistence with disease. Free access: https://t.co/JONN5hCzIN Can we save species like the corroboree frog (D. Hunter photo) from chytrid? When we can't eliminate threats, what can we do to help species live with them?
New paper! Tadpole diet in floodplain wetlands - bugs, biofilm, algae and plant bits! Our study found just because you ate it, doesn’t mean it helps you grow… https://t.co/ozFI0aDtDA (thread 1/7)
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One essential ingredient for successful citizen science is that the data collectors and data stewards/reviewers trust each other @Team_eBird#eBird https://t.co/PkY6wzEXo8
This Christmas advert has been banned from TV for being too political.
I think what's happening to our rain forests should be banned for being criminal to life on earth.
This needs to be the most viewed Christmas advert ever! Do your best Twitter!
The deadly chytrid fungus is still absent from key ecosystems in Australia like Cape York: "Naïve rainforest frogs on Cape York, Australia, are at risk of the introduction of amphibian chytridiomycosis disease" https://t.co/IBrXBas6Ll We need strong biosecurity
It doesn’t matter how we measure global biodiversity, the news is dismal. But don’t give up - we at TNC, WWF, Nat Geo and WCS have not https://t.co/JKswRymIH5 @nature_org@TheWCS@WWF@NatGeo