A Glass Frog Seen From Below
by Peter Essick
Title
A Glass Frog Seen From Below
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Peter Essick
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Photograph - Photograph
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The Fleismann's Glass frog photographed at the Frog Pond in Monteverde, Costa Rica. A survey in 1980 noted 300 individual in a 120 meter stretch of the Rio Guacima. In a repeat survey from 1990-1994 there were at most 8 frogs. In 1988 40 percent of the frogs disappeared in the Monteverde region. Some blame climate change but others say it may be a fungus which attacks the skin of adult frogs which caused the problem and warming made things worse. 1988 was a dry El Nino year.
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November 14th, 2018
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