{"id":476,"date":"2012-02-06T22:16:38","date_gmt":"2012-02-07T03:16:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.savedarwinsfrogs.org\/blog\/?p=476"},"modified":"2024-06-23T15:36:11","modified_gmt":"2024-06-23T15:36:11","slug":"catching-up-with-an-old-friend-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/savedarwinsfrogs.org\/news\/2012\/02\/06\/catching-up-with-an-old-friend-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Catching Up With an Old Friend \/ Ponerse al dia con un viejo amigo"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our field work in 2011 brought us back to a favorite areas of Chile\u2026the region where the Chile Mountains False Toad lives.\u00a0 We are developing captive assurance colonies of this species at the National Zoo of Chile in Santiago.\u00a0 We have also been monitoring a population in south-central Chile for emergent infectious amphibian disease.\u00a0 In addition, our research group just published a paper on this species:<\/p>\n

Nuestro trabajo de campo en 2011 nos trajo de regreso a una de nuestras \u00e1reas favoritas de Chile... la regi\u00f3n donde vive el Falso Sapo de las Monta\u00f1as de Chile.\u00a0 Estamos desarrollando colonias de aseguramiento en cautiverio de esta especie en el Zool\u00f3gico Nacional de Chile en Santiago.\u00a0 Tambi\u00e9n hemos estado monitoreando una poblaci\u00f3n en el centro-sur de Chile para detectar enfermedades infecciosas emergentes de anfibios.\u00a0 Adem\u00e1s, nuestro grupo de investigaci\u00f3n acaba de publicar un art\u00edculo sobre esta especie:<\/span><\/pre>\n
Fenolio, D.B., A. Charrier, M.G. Levy, M.O. Fabry, M.S. Tirado, M.L. Crump., W.W. Lamar, & P.<\/p>\n
Calder\u00f3n. 2011. A review of the Chile Mountains False Toad,\u00a0Telmatobufo venustus\u00a0<\/em>(Amphibia:<\/p>\n
Anura: Calyptocephalellidae) with comments on its conservation status. Herpetological Review<\/em><\/p>\n
42(4): 514\u2013519.<\/p>\n
Here are some images from our field work with these amazing and critically endangered frogs\u2026<\/p>\n
Aqu\u00ed hay algunas im\u00e1genes de nuestro trabajo de campo con estas asombrosas ranas en peligro cr\u00edtico de extinci\u00f3n...<\/span><\/pre>\n
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Chile Mountains False Toads like to live near rapidly flowing mountain streams. Monta\u00f1as de Chile A los sapos falsos les gusta vivir cerca de arroyos de monta\u00f1a que fluyen r\u00e1pidamente.<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The tadpole of the Chile Mountains False Toad (Telmatobufo vesutus<\/em>) is stream adapted. Tadpoles have a suctorial disc around their mouths, helping them hold onto the rocks in the quickly flowing rapids where they live and helping them to scrape food from the substrate. El renacuajo del Falso Sapo de las Monta\u00f1as de Chile (Telmatobufo vesutus<\/em>) est\u00e1 adaptado a los arroyos. Los renacuajos tienen un disco suctor alrededor de la boca, que les ayuda a aferrarse a las rocas en los r\u00e1pidos donde viven y les ayuda a raspar el alimento del sustrato.<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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A close up of the specialized mouth of the tadpole of the Chile Mountains False Toad. Un primer plano de la boca especializada del renacuajo del Falso Sapo de las Monta\u00f1as de Chile.<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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A Chile Mountains False Toad (Telmatobufo vensutus<\/em>) in-situ. Un Falso Sapo de las Monta\u00f1as de Chile (Telmatobufo vensutus) in situ.<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Chile Mountains False Toads are among the most colorful of Chile’s amphibians. Los Sapos Falsos de las Monta\u00f1as de Chile se encuentran entre los anfibios m\u00e1s coloridos de Chile.<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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An adult female Chile Mountains False Toad (Telmatobufo vensutus<\/em>). Una hembra adulta de Falso Sapo de las Monta\u00f1as de Chile (Telmatobufo vensutus<\/em>).<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Our field work in 2011 brought us back to a favorite areas of Chile\u2026the region where the Chile Mountains False Toad lives.\u00a0 We are developing captive assurance colonies of this species at the National Zoo of Chile in Santiago.\u00a0 We…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/savedarwinsfrogs.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/savedarwinsfrogs.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/savedarwinsfrogs.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedarwinsfrogs.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedarwinsfrogs.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=476"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/savedarwinsfrogs.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":802,"href":"https:\/\/savedarwinsfrogs.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476\/revisions\/802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/savedarwinsfrogs.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedarwinsfrogs.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedarwinsfrogs.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}