Frogs airlifted to safety.In a race to rescue amphibians amphibians members of the animal class Amphibia. Includes frogs, toads, newts, salamanders and cecilians all capable of living on land or in water. threatened by a lethal fungus, two biologists from Atlanta recently boarded a plane carrying several suitcases filled with frogs gathered from a Central American Central America A region of southern North America extending from the southern border of Mexico to the northern border of Colombia. It separates the Caribbean Sea from the Pacific Ocean and is linked to South America by the Isthmus of Panama. rain forest. The waterborne fungus was making its way toward their natural habitat in Panama's El Valle national park. Joseph R. Mendelson, a curator at Zoo Atlanta This article or section needs sources or references that appear in reliable, third-party publications. Alone, primary sources and sources affiliated with the subject of this article are not sufficient for an accurate encyclopedia article. , has discovered 50 new species of flogs, only to see half of them become extinct because of the fungus. With the permission of Panama's government, Mendelson and a conservationist from the Atlanta Botanical Gardens collected and evacuated 600 frogs, who traveled to Atlanta in style, snuggled snug·gle v. snug·gled, snug·gling, snug·gles v.intr. 1. To lie or press close together; cuddle. 2. in damp moss inside vented plastic deli containers. The fungus has since reached El Valle and is expected to destroy 90 percent of the flogs there. |
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