one of the discoveries which has most excited many of the scientists are the frogs which lay their eggs in trees rather than water, instead of hatching into tadpoles, they hatch out into miniature versions of the adults, some barely larger than a pinhead, the snail-sucking snake, with striking red markings, has a blunt snout made just perfectly for jamming into the hole of a snail shell and providing that suction to suck the snail right out of there,
but my favorite from what I have seen is the full size gecko pictured above, but there is a downside ‘There is obviously a great concern that these species will disappear as soon as, or even before, they are formally described by science’, said expedition leader Dr Paul Hamilton of Explorers from Reptile & Amphibian Ecology International, deforestation and you guessed it, global warming, are to blame, so all we can do in other words is to catch, breed and release some in other suitable places, or like some animals, plants and fish keep them in captivity only until a suitable habitat is found, but I wonder how many other micro habitats are out there waiting to be found?
Saturday, 16 January 2010
Another Small Ecosystem Has Been Found,
it is in Ecuador, the Cerro Pata de Pájaro, meaning Bird Leg Hill in Spanish to be exact,
one of the discoveries which has most excited many of the scientists are the frogs which lay their eggs in trees rather than water, instead of hatching into tadpoles, they hatch out into miniature versions of the adults, some barely larger than a pinhead, the snail-sucking snake, with striking red markings, has a blunt snout made just perfectly for jamming into the hole of a snail shell and providing that suction to suck the snail right out of there,
but my favorite from what I have seen is the full size gecko pictured above, but there is a downside ‘There is obviously a great concern that these species will disappear as soon as, or even before, they are formally described by science’, said expedition leader Dr Paul Hamilton of Explorers from Reptile & Amphibian Ecology International, deforestation and you guessed it, global warming, are to blame, so all we can do in other words is to catch, breed and release some in other suitable places, or like some animals, plants and fish keep them in captivity only until a suitable habitat is found, but I wonder how many other micro habitats are out there waiting to be found?
one of the discoveries which has most excited many of the scientists are the frogs which lay their eggs in trees rather than water, instead of hatching into tadpoles, they hatch out into miniature versions of the adults, some barely larger than a pinhead, the snail-sucking snake, with striking red markings, has a blunt snout made just perfectly for jamming into the hole of a snail shell and providing that suction to suck the snail right out of there,
but my favorite from what I have seen is the full size gecko pictured above, but there is a downside ‘There is obviously a great concern that these species will disappear as soon as, or even before, they are formally described by science’, said expedition leader Dr Paul Hamilton of Explorers from Reptile & Amphibian Ecology International, deforestation and you guessed it, global warming, are to blame, so all we can do in other words is to catch, breed and release some in other suitable places, or like some animals, plants and fish keep them in captivity only until a suitable habitat is found, but I wonder how many other micro habitats are out there waiting to be found?
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