Have you seen this frog? Probably not. It's the southern mountain yellow-legged frog and there are as few as 400 of them left in the wild.
It was happy hour at the “Frog Shack,” a tiny building at the Los Angeles Zoo offering all the amenities that Southern California’s rarest — and perhaps fussiest — amphibians might need to survive.
Named for the bright yellow on their undersides, southern mountain yellow-legged frogs once thrived in hundreds of streams cascading down the high mountains that surround Los Angeles. A breakthrough came when Recchio and other scientists learned that the life cycle of yellow-legged frogs from the San Gabriel Mountains was different than their cousins in the San Bernardino and San Jacinto mountains. For one thing, the San Gabriel tadpoles metamorphize about twice as fast as those in nearby mountain ranges.
Those conditions mimic what the wild frogs experience in the dead of winter, when they hunker down in a mud bank under a blanket of snow. The bounty of the team’s work is hundreds of new tadpoles each year. About 900 of this year’s crop are scheduled to be released this week in aabout 500 tadpoles were released into a streamThey are the offspring of two genetically distinct groups of tadpoles Recchio took into his care in 2014 as what he described as a
“It remains the only one ever recorded at that cultural icon,” said Recchio, who has served as the Los Angeles Zoo’s curator of herpetology for 13 years and helped design itsfacility. He is also a member of the Association of Zoos and Aquariums’ Komodo dragon committee, and an expert on pit vipers.
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