Delicate Drift

Wooooah!

2009-08-12T09:42:00.001-07:00

I've seen tadpoles munch on eggs before but this is just crazy looking!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8185125.stm

wasps/mites/parasitic wasps/aphids

2009-07-22T11:23:00.000-07:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UsvkfzTMFQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLtUk-W5Gpk&NR=1&feature=fvwp

2009-07-07T09:50:00.001-07:00

Wow! Almost a year since my last post. Since I probably only have two (high guess) readers I guess it doesn't matter.

http://scienceblogs.com/tetrapodzoology/2009/07/tiny_frogs_and_giant_spiders.php

I mean, really, what's the point of a blog that just posts links to other blogs. I should just start emailing links around.

edit:
Some great photos of frog and spider together here: http://www.anura.it/photography/spider-frog
Also some photos of young tarantulas co-feeding on another species of frog. Crazy!

There might be hope for some frogs

2008-09-11T07:54:00.000-07:00

http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/science/09/11/frog.extinct.ap/index.html

Old age in zoos

2008-07-02T08:12:00.000-07:00

acupuncture for a 37-year-old tapir.

Lungworms are good! (...hackhackcoughswallow)

2008-06-27T15:21:00.000-07:00

I'm a big fan of parasites since reading Parasite Rex by Carl Zimmer. I'm also a fan of invasive species (ok, not so much a fan, but I enjoy reading about them) since Kim Todd's Tinkering With Eden. This little piece of news contains both.
in case you're new to the whole Cane toad saga

Speaking of frogs...

2008-05-28T12:30:00.000-07:00

Picture by Mark a.ka. Pigface on dendroboard.

I've had this picture on my work desktop for about a week. I can't stop looking at it.
I might have to pick some of these up for my own collection.

"It's kind of a frogamander, if you will,"...

2008-05-28T09:02:00.000-07:00

Illustration by Michael W. Skrepnick, courtesy University of Calgary

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/05/080521-frog-fossil.html

"It had an overall amphibian gestalt. … You know, kind of a froggy slamander-y sort of look," said Jason Anderson, a comparative biologist at the University of Calgary, Canada, who led a new analysis of the fossil.

"But also I recognized some of the archaic features too, and I thought that this would be a critical piece of evidence in trying to work out the origins of modern amphibians."
Dubbed Gerobatrachus hottoni, the animal looked somewhat like a salamander with a stubby tail and froglike ears.

"So it's kind of a frogamander, if you will," said Anderson.

Egg feeding

2008-03-28T09:53:00.000-07:00

Short video on some of the interesting behaviors certain species of Poison Dart Frogs exhibit:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=xyH_cWE0E-8