Dozens of endangered frogs were born in London The zoo after conservation players launched an emergency mission to save the members of the species from a remote national park in Chile.
The researchers rushed to the Tantoko Park on the southern end of the Sheloy Island after tests that the fungi of the Chitride girl had reached the natural reserve and threatened to survey some of the remaining residents of Darwin’s frogs.
The island was considered a sanctuary of endangered species, but monitoring in 2023 revealed the collapse of 90 % in the numbers due to Chytrid fungi, which was called the most destroyed infectious animal diseases ever.
“We have realized that the situation was really bad,” said Dr. Andres Valencallia Sensse, a research fellow at the Zlology Association in London (ZSL). “We quickly decided that we needed to do something; we needed to rescue the emergency.”
Chytrid fungi have spread all over the world over the past thirty years with severe consequences for amphibians. At least 90 species have been killed and hundreds of others were affected. Darwin’s frogs, which were named after the Victorian Nature World, which he discovered in 1834, are very vulnerable to the disease and die within weeks of injury.
On a five -day exploratory trip to the park in October last year, the rescue team collected 55 Darwin frogs. Some were present after simulating local evidence of amphibious calls, prompting responses to small creatures.
Soon after picking frogs, which weighs only 2G fully grown, the team realized that 11 males were carrying young people. Darwin frogs have an extraordinary genital cycle. Male males are fertilized on the female on the floor of the forest and followed two to three weeks, which they collect later in their mouths, where they pass a voice bag for cuddling. Small frogs slowly turn and generate as a frog.
To check whether the frogs are infected with fungi, skin floods have been sent to a laboratory in the capital of Chile, Santiago. The tests were identified with two contaminated frogs. The remaining 53 of the trip of approximately 8,000 miles (13,000 km) was cleared to London on a boat, plane and van.
The frogs arrived in good health and were transferred to a newly built biological affairs room in the zoo that mimics the cold temperature, precipitation, lighting and foliage in the natural habitats of the frogs. Once it settles, males who were holding frogs released 33 frogs in the box. It is measured about 5 mm.
“We have the founders, the first adults, and now we have this first generation of birth controls in the zoo,” Valencallia Senshes told the Guardian newspaper. Researchers now hope to raise frogs and study potential treatments for Chytrid fungi that would allow amphibians to the home.
The ZSL rescue mission was recorded by the wildlife movie maker Paul Glenn, who is the documentary that the documentary film Hope jump It will be shown on YouTube at 6 pm GMT on Monday.
