Year: 2010

With so much time in the field, we bump into all kinds of rare and infrequently seen amphibians.  Here are a few of the recent encounters... Con tanto tiempo en el campo, nos topamos con todo tipo de anfibios raros…

Hemos estado ocupados observando docenas de localidades y realizando pruebas para detectar enfermedades infecciosas emergentes.  Queríamos mostrarles a todos algunas imágenes del campo. We have been busy looking at dozens of localities and testing for emergent infectious disease.  We wanted…

Many thanks to Wildlife Extra for their top quality article on our breeding program! ¡Muchas gracias a Wildlife Extra por su artículo de alta calidad sobre nuestro programa de cría! http://www.wildlifeextra.com/go/news/darwins-frogs.html#cr

Once all of the environmental systems in our captive breeding facility checked out, we added our first group of frogs.  Somewhat surprisingly, the frogs immediately began enacting reproductive behavior.  We had calling and a bit of dancing around between males…

Our travels around Chile have been many.  We are always investigating new and historic localities for Darwin’s Frogs.  We wanted to provide an idea of some of the sights we have been taking in during our field adventures.

Nuestros viajes por Chile han sido muchos.  Siempre estamos investigando localidades nuevas e históricas para las ranas de Darwin.  Queríamos dar una idea de algunos de los lugares que hemos estado contemplando durante nuestras aventuras de campo.

Our team has been busy working in the field.  Among our objectives, we want to visit historical localities for Darwin’s Frogs and determine if they are still there.  If we find frogs, we take skin swabs and see if amphibian chytrid fungus is present.

Nuestro equipo ha estado ocupado trabajando en el campo.  Entre nuestros objetivos queremos visitar localidades históricas de las Ranas de Darwin y determinar si aún existen.  Si encontramos ranas, tomamos muestras de piel y vemos si hay hongo quítrido anfibio presente.