Installing the Darwin’s Frog Breeding Center, Day 2 / Instalacion del Centro de Crianza de Ranas de Darwin, Dia 2

August 25, 2009

We shopped till we dropped.  Our list of supplies to pick up ranged from screen for the false bottoms to coconuts.  Fortunately, Santiago’s excellent hardware stores not only included everything we needed but also things we hadn’t seen in the United States.  Best of all, we found Rain-X, which allowed us to prevent the exhibit glass from fogging.

Compramos hasta cansarnos.  Nuestra lista de suministros para recoger iba desde pantallas para los fondos falsos hasta cocos.  Afortunadamente, las excelentes ferreterías de Santiago no sólo incluían todo lo que necesitábamos sino también cosas que no habíamos visto en Estados Unidos.  Lo mejor de todo es que encontramos Rain-X, que nos permitió evitar que el vidrio de la exhibición se empañe.






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Setting up the Darwins Frog breeding facility at the National Zoo of Chile in Santiago/ Instalación del criadero de Ranas de Darwin en el Zoológico Nacional de Chile en Santiago




   August 17, 2009




The Darwin’s Frog conservation initiative, involving the Atlanta Botanical Garden and the National Zoo of Chile in Santiago, is gearing up to finish installing a captive breeding facility for imperiled Darwin’s Frogs this week at the zoo in Santiago. After months of buying equipment, organizing shipping, and ironing out travel details, we are finally ready to put the equipment into the new facility at the National Zoo of Chile. Everyone is really excited since discussions of this project have been ongoing for years.