Posted on September 11, 2008 by Darren
Andrew and the team have found what they were looking for - a female Isthmohyla rivularis alive and well in the Costa Rican cloud forest of Monteverde. They also found some more males of this species giving hope that they are surviving and breeding there. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7609780.stm
This species was thought extinct for 20 years until Andrew found [...]
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Posted on September 9, 2008 by Darren
Andrew and the team of researchers on the Costa Rican expedition have found the rare and critically endangered Red-eyed stream frog Duellmanohyla uranochroa. The BBC following the group have been able to film this species for the very first time! For more on this story see the link below.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7603295.stm
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Posted on September 5, 2008 by Darren
Andrew is currently in Costa Rica on fieldwork and leading a team from Chester Zoo and the University of Manchester. They are searching for Isthmohyla rivularis (right), a frog that Andrew rediscovered last year after it had been thought extinct about 20 years.
Whilst there, he and Mark Dickinson from the Photon Science Institute at the University of Manchester will be [...]
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Posted on September 4, 2008 by Darren
Follow this link to see Andrew explaining about some of the important Infra-red reflectance research he is doing in collaboration with Mark Dickinson and Richard Preziosi at the University of Manchester : http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7464437.stm
For his other research work using OCT, see also: http://www.octnews.org/entity/profile/andrew-gray/
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Posted on September 4, 2008 by Darren
At the moment we are also rearing some recently metamorphosed froglets of another Costa Rican frog Isthmohyla lancastri. These small tree frogs live around and breed in fast flowing streams in the rainforest. Their call is really cool, like a little chirping bird. The specimens we have call in the back area of vivarium all [...]
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Posted on September 4, 2008 by Darren
Thank you for joining us for our first Frog Blog!
On Wednesday 23rd July both of us met with Richard Gibson and Douglas Sherriff from Chester Zoo regarding the development of a conservation project involving Green-eyed frogs Lithobates vibicaria. Last year, Andrew acquired some specimens of this Costa Rican species from what is thought to be [...]
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