{"id":1450,"date":"2010-03-20T15:00:24","date_gmt":"2010-03-20T04:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/?p=1450"},"modified":"2010-10-26T15:00:59","modified_gmt":"2010-10-26T04:00:59","slug":"tiny-frogs-struggle-for-survival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/nature\/tiny-frogs-struggle-for-survival\/","title":{"rendered":"Tiny frogs struggle for survival"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1460\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 605px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Corroboree_Lorinda-Taylor.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Corroboree_Lorinda-Taylor\" width=\"605\" height=\"375\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1460\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Corroboree_Lorinda-Taylor.jpg 605w, https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Corroboree_Lorinda-Taylor-300x186.jpg 300w, https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Corroboree_Lorinda-Taylor-119x74.jpg 119w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 605px) 100vw, 605px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image: Lorinda Taylor<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>One of the snowy region&#8217;s most striking residents, the Southern Corroboree Frog, is fighting for survival. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>With an estimated 80 frogs left in the wild, Taronga Zoo has successfully bred 150 fertile eggs in captivity for the first time. The brilliant yellow and black-striped amphibian lives only in elevations above 1,000 metres in Kosciuszko National Park. <\/p>\n<p>Comparative surveys reveal the population has plummeted from around 750 frogs recorded ten years ago. Taronga&#8217;s Herpetofauna Manager Peter Harlow says a skin fungus known as Chytrid is the leading cause of their decline. &#8220;Chytrid fungus doesn&#8217;t hurt tadpoles, but that&#8217;s when [they tend to] contract it,&#8221;\u009d he says. &#8220;It doesn&#8217;t actually harm them until they turn into a frog,&#8221;\u009d he says. This long pause between contraction and the development of symptoms means the fungus can quickly spread through whole groups. <\/p>\n<p>Despite early success, Harlow notes the breeding program still has a long way to go. &#8220;Next year we hope to have many more females mature,&#8221;\u009d he says. The Taronga breeding program is run in collaboration with the Amphibian Research Centre, the University of Canberra and the NSW government. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the snowy region&#8217;s most striking residents, the Southern Corroboree Frog, is fighting for survival. With an estimated 80 frogs left in the wild, Taronga Zoo has successfully bred 150 fertile eggs&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,56,11,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals","category-conservation","category-in-the-mag","category-nature"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1450"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1450"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1463,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1450\/revisions\/1463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}