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How scientists got a very rare toad to breed
The harlequin toad has been successfully bred in captivity for the first time outside its native Panama. The three-year project has been a collaboration between Panama Wildlife Charity PWCC, Manchester Museum, and the Faculty of Medicine, Biology and Heath at the University of Manchester in the UK. This breeding programme could provide a safety net for the toads, which are in danger of extinction, as they could be bred in captivity and reintroduced into the wild.
(Photo: Harlequin toad. Credit: University of Manchester.)
Video by Daniel South, Jasmin Souesi and Dee Sebastian.
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The harlequin toad has been successfully bred in captivity for the first time outside its native Panama. The three-year project has been a collaboration between Panama Wildlife Charity PWCC, Manchester Museum, and the Faculty of Medicine, Biology and Health at the University of Manchester in the UK. This breeding programme could provide a safety net for the toads, which are in danger of extinction, as they could be bred in captivity and reintroduced into the wild.
(Photo: Harlequin toad. Credit: University of Manchester.)
Video by Daniel South, Jasmin Souesi and Dee Sebastian.
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In World First, English Museum Successfully Breeds Endangered Harlequin Toad
Mar 9, 2021
Herpetologists at the Manchester Museum have successfully bred a critically-endangered harlequin toad for the first time ever.
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The scientists successfully recreated the habitat in which harlequin tadpoles grow up following years of meticulous work.
The breeding program will ensure that at least one of these charismatic amphibians the veragoa stubfoot toad, has a failsafe mechanism for its survival should something happen to it in its rainforest home of Central America.
The genus
atelopus, colloquially known as the harlequin toads, almost all range from endangered to critically endangered according to the IUCN Red List, and are found in the rainforests of South and Central America.