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Amphibian Conservationists Put Naming Rights for Five New Frog Species on the Auction Block (Kansas City InfoZine)
By Jim Low - The high bidder can name his or her frog for anyone or anything.
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Giant snapping turtles cropping up in mid-valley (Corvallis Gazette-Times)
Tom Carroll laughed that he had screamed like a little girl when he first picked up the turtle. But who could blame him? After all, the amphibian was 20 inches long and weighed 20 pounds. And it was trying to bite him.
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Amphibian serenade: the gray tree frog (The Narrowsburg River Reporter)
During the last few weeks, fields, forests and wetlands have been alive with the sound of life. From the call of the wood thrush to the bleating of a new fawn, these sounds tell a story of what creatures are nearby and the health of their habitat.
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St. Louis Zoo is home to extremely rare bird (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
A turkey with a party hat. That has to be the best description I've ever heard of one of the rarest birds in the world, the horned guan. Fewer than 1,000 horned guans remain in the wild in the cloud forests of Mexico and Guatemala.
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Pesticides May Be Responsible For Reproductive Abnormalities (Medical News Today)
A farm irrigation canal would seem a healthier place for toads than a ditch by a supermarket parking lot. But University of Florida scientists have found the opposite is true.
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Food costs have gone up for the zoo's 400 species (The Wichita Eagle)
If you think it's hard trying to feed your brood all the necessary daily food groups while living on a strict budget, try coping with these 2,000 hungry mouths to feed. From cockroaches and smelt to mealworms and cow's blood, meal variety is everything at the Sedgwick County Zoo. Each day, zoo officials must take into consideration the likes and dislikes of 400 species of animals, all of them ...
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Inbreeding And Amphibian Malformations (Medical News Today)
We captured 687 adult and 1259 larval tiger salamanders (Ambystoma tigrinum), assessed individuals for gross malformations, and surveyed genetic variation among malformed and normal individuals using both cytoplasmic and nuclear markers. The overall frequency of adults with malformations was 0.078 compared to 0.081 in larval samples.
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Gibbs Technologies may add 30 Oakland County jobs (Crain's Detroit Business)
A British maker of high-speed amphibian vehicles with offices in Plymouth expects to choose its permanent North American headquarters this month and could add up to 30 local jobs, if one of several sites in Oakland County wins out over locations in...
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Hanging on (Toronto Star)
The Jefferson salamander is one species caught between the good and the bad of the new Endangered Species Act.
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Column: Where have all the frogs gone? (Niles Daily Star)
I remember as a kid, and I bet you more seasoned readers do too, that leopard frogs were as common as ticks here in southern Michigan. Wander along any stream bank or lake shore and these bright green frogs with prominent black spots would be bounding from underfoot in long, zig-zagging leaps.
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