NYC Frog Project on the Road

Oceanario de Lisboa
Lisbon, Portugal

The Oceanrio de Lisboa claims to be the best aquarium in Europe, and it just might be.  It's certainly the best I've been to.  In addition to being home to the best fish ever . . .

 . . . it also has quite a nice display of frogs.

Frogs of the Times

Good New on the Fungus Front

According to the article:  "After a six-year effort, researchers on the Spanish island of Majorca have rid several groups of Maorcan midwife toads of the pathogen Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis--better known as chytrid fungus, or B.d.  It's the first time the disease, which is devastating amphibians worldwide, has been eradicated in a wild population."

Photo credit:  New York Times

Frogs of the Times

A Frog that Can Change Skin Texture

"A new species of frog discovered in Ecuador is the first vertebrate known to change its skin texture from smooth to spiny, researchers say."  According to the article, the frog, discovered in 2006, is about the size of a marble.  

Photo from the New York Times

NYC Frog Project on the Road

Live Frogs:  Maine Edition

While traveling through Acadia National Park on a rainy August day, we came across a pond with dozens of these guys hanging out on lily pads:

A couple of days later, in Baxter State Park, we found this guy in the woods around Daicey Pond, where we followed the Appalachian Trail for about a mile:

NYC Frog Project On the Road

Glenwood Gardens
Cincinnati, Ohio

A few years ago, I posted pictures of some of the frogs we found at Glenwood Gardens, one of the parks in Hamilton County.   This time, we found some real frogs.   The twelve-year-old boy who helped us find them could tell us what they were.  I don't remember now.