{"id":135,"date":"2008-02-02T17:42:15","date_gmt":"2008-02-02T21:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/2008\/02\/02\/waving-frog-waves-for-the-last-time\/"},"modified":"2008-02-02T17:42:15","modified_gmt":"2008-02-02T21:42:15","slug":"waving-frog-waves-for-the-last-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/2008\/02\/02\/waving-frog-waves-for-the-last-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Waving frog waves for the last time"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sad:<\/p>\n

The Panamanian golden frog communicates with other frogs by semaphore in the form of gentle hand waves.<\/font><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/science\/nature\/7219803.stm<\/a><\/p>\n

What’s is amazing is that they took video of them in the wild before the last wild populations were destroyed by a fungi:<\/p>\n

… after filming for the BBC One series Life In Cold Blood, the frogs had to be rescued from the wild, due to the threat of chytrid fungus.<\/font><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

More details on chytrid fungus and a possible cure:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/science\/nature\/7067613.stm<\/a><\/p>\n

The blow that chytrid has dealt to the frog population is already immense. <\/font><\/p>\n

The disease has probably accounted for one-third of all the losses in amphibian species to date, says Professor Rick Speare, an expert in amphibian diseases who works with the University of Otago’s frog research group. <\/font><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Update:
\nJust found this video on YouTube that from the BBC documentary mentioned above:
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Sad: The Panamanian golden frog communicates with other frogs by semaphore in the form of gentle hand waves. http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/science\/nature\/7219803.stm What’s is amazing is that they took video of them in the wild before the last wild populations were destroyed by a fungi: … after filming for the BBC One series Life In Cold Blood, the … Continue reading Waving frog waves for the last time<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[115,167,197,244,259,274,294,428,466,467,468,611,621,622,651],"class_list":["post-135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature","tag-bbc","tag-chytrid-fungus","tag-documentary","tag-extinct","tag-flash","tag-frog","tag-golden","tag-nature","tag-panama","tag-panamanian","tag-panamanian-golden-frog","tag-video","tag-waving","tag-waving-frog","tag-youtube"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}