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Incredible footage of rare Panamanian golden frog!

Debs on Feb 3rd 2008

There was some amazing footage on the Science and Nature pages of BBC News yesterday showing the rare Panamanian golden frog waving, wrestling and courting for the first time. In fact, shortly after recording the footage for the BBC One series Life In Cold Blood (which is presented by Sir David Attenborough), the frogs had to be rescued from the wild, due to the threat of chytrid fungus - the whole species is now extinct in Panama and this recording shows their unusual behaviour for both the first and last time in their natural habitat.

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Toad and ‘The Wind in the Willows’

Debs on Jan 30th 2008

Just found this classic episode from the TV series based on Kenneth Grahame's Wind in the Willows in which Toad and Badger are set adrift in Toad's hot air balloon whilst Mole is forced to come to the rescue by motorcar down below!

Created using old-fashioned stop-motion animation...such a shame that the predominance of CGI effects today have forced the virtual demise of this technique. Toad is voiced by David Jason of Only Fools and Horses and A Touch of Frost fame.

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‘Death of a Naturalist’ by Seamus Heaney

Debs on Jan 10th 2008

Death of a Naturalist by Irish Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney is the title poem from his first major collection published in 1966 and one of the finest frog poems ever written!

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