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Strawberry Dart Frogs Climb to Bolster Chance of Species Survival

A story of creation is unfolding in the Amazonia exhibit at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo involving a lot of TLC by one of the Amazon’s smallest amphibians, the strawberry dart frog. For the first ...
Smithsonian Magazine

A Mother’s Journey: How Strawberry Dart Frogs Are Born at the Smithsonian National Zoo

It took 10 minutes to spot just one strawberry dart frog in the terrarium at the National Zoo, hidden carefully in the folds of a lush green leaf and staring with beady black eyes into the early ...
Staten Island Advance

For Staten Island botanist, poison frogs are his passion

Richard Lynch, a local botanist, has the most unusual of alarm clocks: He wakens daily to the peculiar sound of amphibian mating calls. Criiick criiick. Ticki-ticki-ticki-ticki! Amorous jungle noises ...
Berkshire Eagle

Poison dart frogs bring rain forest home at the Berkshire Museum

PITTSFIELD -- Give a child a piece of paper and a small box of crayons and ask for a picture of some frogs. Chances are a green crayon will color in the frogs and much of the background. Visit the ...
StamfordAdvocate

CT students bred an endangered poison dart frog in a 250 gallon tank in their science lab. Here's how.

STAMFORD — An orange and black male frog not much longer than an inch carries a tiny tadpole up to the top of a tropical plant and places it inside a well of water to await its first meal: an ...
NPR

Poison-Dart Frogs Find a Home in the Desert

This is WEEKEND EDITION from NPR News. I'm John Ydstie. There's a new trend in the pet world that has nothing to do with cockapoodles, ferrets or Siamese fighting fish. More and more people around the ...
WPRI 12

Endangered frogs arrive at Buttonwood Park Zoo

NEW BEDFORD, Mass. (WPRI) — Buttonwood Park Zoo is welcoming its newest, and one of its rarest, amphibian species. Five Panamanian golden frogs now call a terrarium inside the New Bedford zoo’s ...