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Memphis Zoo is looking for a 3-year Postdoc in #AmphibianConservation and Research! 🐸🐸🐸
More info: shorturl.at/hmSU6
Please help spread the word! @MIAZS_Now @thezooscientist @zoos_aquariums @MemphisZoo
#ZooResearch #ZooScience #Herpetology
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We are excited to announce that the #GWHbook is featured on @AmphibiaWeb as the #Amphibian news of the week! Head over to amphibiaweb.org/ to read the full feature! 🐸💚👩🔬 #womeninstem #HERper #herpetology #herpetologynews
ALT A graphic depicting a computer and a cell phone both containing a screenshot from the AmphibiaWeb homepage.
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Had a rough week? Bounce back with a Titicaca Water Frog (Telmatobius culeus) this #FrogFriday!
#Telmatobiusculeus #Telmatobius #Wildlife #WildlifeConservation #TiticacaWaterFrog #Frog #WaterFrog
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The Conservation Science group at the University of Newcastle, Aus. @ConservationUon has announced 3 amazing PhD scholarships opportunities to study the impacts of longwall mining on the Littlejohn’s tree frog.
Check it out:
newcastle.edu.au/study/resea……
📸 Nikola Markovina
ALT Littlejohn's tree frog (Litoria littlejohni), also called a heath frog or orange-bellied tree frog, is a species of tree frog native to eastern Australia from Wyong, New South Wales, to Buchan, Victoria.
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Save the date for the Midwest PARC 2023 Annual Conference! 🎉 This year’s gathering will take place Aug. 25-27 at the Touch of Nature Outdoor Education Center at Southern Illinois University. Stay tuned for details and registration. 🐸
ALT Image with text 'MIDWEST PARC 2023 Annual Conference August 25-27 Touch of Nature Outdoor Education Center Carbondale, IL MWPARC.org/meeting' and images of snake skin, salamander skin, and a turtle carapace.
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Here's looking at you 👀- frog? salamander? caecilian?
Thomas et al. looked at over 1k amphibian photos to understand the evolution of pupil shape.
They found aquatic and fossorial species have less elongated pupils species! ⦿ vs ⌽
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ALT Green frog on stick in the dark. the pupils are very long and skinny and vertical. Agalychnis buckleyi
ALT Brown frog on green leaf. pupils are diamond and not elongated. Boana boans
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Hey #JMIH2022- @EmmaSteigerwald & I will present a new study by @AmphibiaWeb (incl @MollyCWomack @davidcblackburn @davidcannatella @atrox10 @wavingfrog @koomapper @acatenazzi @santiak & Jing Che) -come chat about AWeb, amphibians + how you can get involved
amphibiaweb.org/survey
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Kannon Pearson (1st year grad student in the Tarvin lab) will be talking about: A Review of Chemical Defense in Harlequin Toads (Bufonidae: Atelopus).
Thursday July 28th @ 2:15pm
SSAR Seibert Ecology, Ballroom 111A
#JMIH2022
📷 of Atelopus certus by Brian Freiermuth
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Hi, #JMIH2022!
I look forward to sharing recent work from the @AmphibiaWeb Conservation Working Group with my talk on the strategic use of microreserves for amphibian conservation!
Hope to see you at 10am on Friday, 29 July, in room 206C!
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AmphibiaWeb (@AmphibiaWeb ) needs your help! We are conducting a survey to understand how we may better serve our community and contributors to our species accounts. This survey is anonymous and should take 2 minutes to complete:
amphibiaweb.org/survey
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🦎👋 Did you know that salamanders can *literally* give you a hand—then grow it back? Check out Reptile Discovery Center keeper Matt Neff’s top 6 salamander facts! ✏️STORY: s.si.edu/3ejRlTE.
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#AmphibianWeek
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We know you’re #AmphibiousAF if you're celebrating #AmphibianWeek with us…but would 41 cm and 4.5 kg of Beezlebufo be too much frog for you? This painting by AF's Executive Director Mark Mandica shows its size in comparison to the Argentine Horned Frog (Ceratophrys ornata).
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🦎👀📏 Japanese giant salamanders breathe through their skin, have impossibly small eyes and can grow up to 5 feet long! Get the scoop on these freshwater giants from Reptile Discovery Center keeper Kyle Miller. STORY: s.si.edu/2VjDsNz.
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#AmphibianWeek
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At our field sites in Wisconsin, we see lots of eastern newts throughout their life cycle. Did you know they go through four distinct stages? Eggs that are laid in water, fully aquatic larvae, efts that are terrestrial, and aquatic adults. ow.ly/G6bx50IVZnE #AmphibianWeek
ALT Life cycle of an eastern newt diagram showing eggs layed under water, larvae under water, an orange colored eft on land, and an adult newt in water.
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Family Cryptobranchidae first appears in the fossil record 55-58 million years ago. Five NEPARC states are lucky enough to host one of its extant species—the Eastern Hellbender (Cryptobranchus alleganiensis alleganiensis)! #AmphibiansThroughTime #AmphibianWeek
PC: Kevin Stohlgren
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Online registration is now open for the 2022 Joint Meeting of Ichthyology and Herpetology #JMIH2022. Here's the link:
burkclients.com/JMIH/meeting…
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I just donated and so can you :) even a dollar helps!
Do you teach herpetology, conservation, evolution, or physiology? AmphibiaWeb can help your students learn and publish accounts about amphibian biology. Help support more student involvement by giving today! #CalBigGive
give.berkeley.edu/fund/FU086…
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Donating even a dollar or two can help; with the highest number of donors we could win $12,500 from the university
Did you know that there are currently 7455 species of frogs, 767 species of salamanders, and 215 species of caecilians? AmphibiaWeb keeps track of new amphibian species and their biology. Support us today! #CalBigGive give.berkeley.edu/fund/FU086…
ALT Learn more about Banded Caecilians https://amphibiaweb.org/cgi/amphib_query?where-genus=Scolecomorphus&where-species=vittatus
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Beautiful write-up on Kannon's undergraduate thesis and first paper from our lab: Losing amphibian diversity also means losing poison diversity news.berkeley.edu/2022/02/03… #atelopus