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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.
One of world s rarest toads bred in captivity for first time in Manchester Phoebe Weston © Photograph: Minden Pictures/Alamy The variable harlequin toad lives deep in the rainforests of Panama and Costa Rica.
One of the world’s rarest toads has been bred in captivity for the first time, thanks to the work of scientists at Manchester Museum.
The critically endangered variable harlequin toad,
Atelopus varius, lives deep in the central American rainforests of Panama and Costa Rica, breeding only in turbulent streams filled with stones and boulders on which they lay their eggs.
Scientists at the University of Manchester went to Santa Fe national park in Panama and recorded the conditions of the amphibians’ native habitat. They used the data to recreate the temperatures, water levels and water flow in captivity. Special lighting meant a certain tropical algae, which the tadpoles feed on using specialised sucker-like mouthparts, could thrive.
One of world s rarest toads bred in captivity for first time in Manchester
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