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Cleo of Topless Topics

There are now at least five or six #tadpole - turned - #frog s in the #paludarium (no adult salamanders on land yet, though), and more every day... They're soooo tiny that I'm afraid to feed them fruitflies yet, so I've just been adding springtails and catching ants outside 😅 it's so much easier to feed them when they're tadpoles content with water plants and detritus, heh.

Collage photo showing the pond section of the paludarium I made still full of tadpoles and salamander larva, with a tiny waterfall dripping into it, then two close up shots of tiny newly metamorphosized froglets, one green and one brown.
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Australian Geographic

What if we could get cane toads to destroy themselves? Find out how… ausgeo.co/peterpantadpoles

Researchers from Macquarie University have discovered that cane toad tadpoles are "enthusiastic cannibals" of cane toad eggs, and can wipe out entire clutches in waterbodies where they're released.

But what about when these tadpoles turn into toads and start breeding? Well, there is a solution for that too – and it is inspired by Peter Pan.

📷 Etienne Littlefair & Chris Jolly

#ausgeo #seeaustralia #canetoad #conservation #frog #tadpole
#environment #globalwarming #academia #research #academicchatter #biology #nature #wildlife #photography #science #scientist

A fish is lying on a bed of small stones underwater, surrounded by clusters of translucent eggs.
A small, translucent tadpole with visible internal organs swims near the rocky bottom of a body of water.
A small, reddish-brown toad with bumpy skin sits on a person's open palm. The background shows various hanging tools and a rack.
Close-up of a black tadpole among small brown stones underwater, with visible eyes and mouth.
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Heath Arcadia

Various stages of development of Western Toads (Anaxyrus boreas) at Frog Lake, Mt. Hood National Forest, Oregon. (Well, at least the first three are. The final picture may be a different frog or toad; I am terrible at telling the difference when they are in that stage.)

There were hundreds of these little toads hoping around in the mud and shallow water around the lake! They were so fun to watch.

Three brown, bumpy toads in the mud. There are blades of grass in the picture frame that show how the small scale of these toads. The center toad still has a tiny bit of tail left from its tadpole stage.
A small, spotted toad swimming in shallow water. It still has a tail that is nearly the length of its body.
Another small toad with a portion of a tail swimming at the surface of the shallow water.
A black tadpole in shallow, muddy water. It has the beginning of a small back leg visible next to its long tail.
#frogs#toads#tadpoles
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Journal of Exp Biol

Hotter springs and summers mean that ponds dry out faster, so what effect might this have on tadpoles and the frogs they develop into? Michel Ohmer & co found that tadpoles developing in drying ponds are smaller when they lose their tails and can't leap as far when adult

journals.biologists.com/jeb/ar

#frog #tadpole #climatechange #comparativephysiology #science #zoology #biology

Read the full research paper at journals.biologists.com/jeb/ar

A juvenile southern leopard frog (Rana sphenocephala). Photo credit: Michel Ohmer.
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Cathie LeBlanc

#SkyWatch #Astrophotography The #FlamingStar nebula (upper right with the star AE Auriga at its center) and the #Tadpole nebula (lower left) surround some bright colorful stars. The yellow star is a 3 star system that comprise 16 Auriga. The middle stars are 17 Auriga and IQ Auriga. The top stars are 18 Auriga and 19 Auriga. 17 Aur and IQ Aur are a "proper motion pair," moving through space together while the other objects just look like they are near each other but are not. #StillLearning

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