Frog Tees

According to a report in InTheNews.co.uk today ten of the most threatened amphibian species are to be given extra help from the Edge conservation programme run by The Zoological Society of London (ZSL)

They describe these creatures as some of the world’s most extraordinary amphibians:

• Chinese giant salamander
• The limbless Sagalla caecilian which has sensory tentacles on the sides of its head
• The purple frog which lives 4 metres underground for much of the year
• Ghost frogs of South Africa some of which are found only in the traditional human burial grounds of Skeleton Gorge in Table Mountain, South Africa
• Olm - a blind salamander that can go without food for ten years
• Mexican lungless salamanders
• Malagasy rainbow frog
• Chile Darwin’s frog which has not officially be seen since 1980 (therefore may already be extinct)
• Betic midwife toad - the males carry the fertilised eggs wrapped around their hind legs
• The remarkable Gardiner’s Seychelles frog which is the size of a drawing pin