Wonderful field trip! Though we never asked them,
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"Climate Change, Disease, Exotics and Humans: The Unique Case of the Oregon Spotted Frog"
Tuesday, Feb. 26, Oregon Zoo, Portland
Dr. Marc P. Hayes, Research Scientist, Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife
In his lecture, “Climate Change, Disease, Exotics and Humans: The Unique Case of the Oregon Spotted Frog,” Hayes describes the Oregon spotted frog as one of the Pacific Northwest's most remarkable amphibians. For a variety of reasons, this beautiful frog is now found in less than 20 percent of its historic range. Hayes tells the important story of the Oregon spotted frog, and how its precipitous decline may lead us to make better environmental choices in the future.
Websites that might be useful:
http://www.californiaherps.com/frogs/pages/r.pretiosa.html
http://www.herpetologynorthwest.org/nwherps/toads-and-frogs/oregon-spotted-frog.html
http://wdfw.wa.gov/wlm/diversty/soc/status/spotfrog/sfrgxsum.htm
http://www.nwf.org/frogwatchUSA/content_decline-11-04.cfm
Monday, February 25, 2008
Field Trip for Tuesday, Feb. 26
8 comments:
What can we do to help protect the frogs?
What is the highest elevation that they can survive?
How many Oregon biologists are studying them?
How do they taste?
Are they poisonous?
Are they squishy?
What do they eat?
Why are frogs important?
If we let them be, would they all die?
Do caecilians live in groups or on their own?
(I know that wasn't about frogs, but I do want to know more about them. Those things looked cool.)
Maggie
if we had just let them be, do you think they would be thriving?
where would one look for caecelians?
are caecelians edible?
that last comment was by me, Graham Sholar.
How much do human activities have to do with amphibian decline?
What do Oregon Spotted Frogs eat?
Which animals, other than bullfrogs, eat Spotted Frogs?
What did they look like a million years ago?
Approximately how many are there?
Do rough skin newts eat them?
E.H.T.B
caecilians are my freeeeeeeeiiiiiiiindssssssssss
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