by Susan | Aug 31, 2009 | Learn about Frogs, Read about Frogs
School is just around the corner, so we’ve put together some recent books and DVDs about our amphibian friends that you, your students, or your kids might enjoy. The descriptions are from Amazon or from the publishers’ websites. Books for Kids Face to Face...
by Susan | Aug 27, 2009 | Frog Conservation
The BBC News reported today that conservationists have launched a new initiative at the Zoological Society of London called the Amphibian Survival Alliance to safeguard the world’s amphibians from extinction. According to the article, the Alliance will be...
by Susan | Aug 24, 2009 | Frog Dissection
Remember that scene from E.T. when Elliott frees all frogs in his science class? Elliott reminds me of my younger son Tim, who probably would have done the same thing (without being inebriated)! This past weekend, Tim returned to college, where he is thinking of...
by Susan | Aug 19, 2009 | Life Cycle of Frogs, People Helping Frogs and Toads
Susan posed an interesting question to me yesterday. How has the record rainfall in the U.S. effected our amphibian friends? Humans have been somewhat inconvenienced by the cool, rainy summer of ’09—canceled picnics, damp weddings, rainy vacations, and...
by Susan | Aug 17, 2009 | Climate change and frogs, How You Can Help, Meet the Frogs, Rainforest Frogs
In the Monteverde Cloud Forest Preserve of Costa Rica, there were once so many harlequin frog species (Atelopus) that it was hard not to step on them when walking alongside streams. But during the 1980s and 1990s, most of these frogs vanished due to deadly infectious...
by Susan | Aug 13, 2009 | Frog Conservation, Learn about Frogs
I’ve just returned from vacation in Massachusetts, where I went whale watching off the coast with my family. On land, we also did some frog watching! My husband snapped a picture of a handsome frog in a little pond in the woods before it hopped off the lily pad....
