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June 2011 Issue THE FROG AND TADPOLE STUDY GROUP NSW Inc. Email: [email protected] PO Box 296 Rockdale NSW 2216 Frogwatch Helpline 0419 249 728 Website: www.fats.org.au NEWSLETTER No. 113 June 2011 ABN: 34 282 154 794 Photo by Jodi Rowley Bidoup-Nui Ba National Park, Vietnam. Rhacophorus vampyrus Vampire Flying Frog Arrive 6.30 pm for a 7pm start. Friday 3rd June FATS meet at the Education Centre, Bicentennial Park Easy walk from Concord West railway station and straight down Victoria Ave. If walking, take a strong torch in winter. By car: Enter from Australia Ave at the Bicentennial Park main entrance, turn off to the right and drive through the park. It’s a one way road. Or enter from Bennelong Road / Parkway. It’s a short stretch of two way road. Park in p10f car park - the last car park before the exit gate. See map p12. CONTENTS PAGE DECCW amphibian licences must be sighted, to adopt frogs. Notes from April meeting Main speaker Jodi Rowley MEETING FORMAT Friday 3rd June 2011 Vampire Flying Frogs 2 Arthur White Darwin’s Frogs 3 6.30 pm Lost Perons frogs and a few others needing homes. Thank you to Marion Anstis, Lothar Please bring your FATS membership card and $$ donation. and Alice Voigt 3 DECCW amphibian licence must be sighted on the night. Herpdigest 4 The frogs can never be released. YouTube clips 5 7.00 pm Welcome and announcements. What’s at the bottom of your garden? 5-7 FATS AGM notice 5th August 2011 7 7..30 pm The main speaker is Robert Wall “The Barred Frogs Frog-o-graphic competition 2011 8 of the Gloucester Valley” Escape devices for animals in pools 8 -9 Grant Webster “ Driving along looking for Frogs” Photos by George Madani Joel Cassar “Toad catching scoop” Frogs use bladder 10 Punia Jeffery “FATS at the Royal Easter Show” to expel foreign objects FATS contact information 11 9.30 pm Show us your frog images, tell us about your frogging Field trips 12 trips or experiences, guessing competition, light refreshments FATS meeting location map 12 and a chance to relax and chat with frog experts. FATS “about us” 12 The high altitude, over 2,000 metres above sea level Vietnamese forests where Jodi worked, (despite her fear of heights and the dangers of large predatory mammals), were beautiful to photograph but cold, covered in cloud and wet. The Vampire Flying Frogs have big toe pads and eyes, are adapted to living in trees but easily use their webbing to glide down to the ground using the fringing on the side of their arms. The tadpoles develop in the foam nests in tree holes, with very little water. This allows them to escape predation by fish and other invertebrates but there are a lot of tadpoles and potentially not a lot of food. These tadpoles have no opposing beak mouth parts but have two fangs on the bottom. Jodi Rowley at our April meeting LAST FATS MEETING 1ST APRIL 2011 unia Jeffery opened the meeting and greeted P everyone and gave a special welcome to new members and attendees. She described our organisation as a group of people who love frogs, go on field trips, keep them as pets, study them at uni, environmental and biodiversity careers, you name it. Our next field trips happen in September so watch out for news in our August edition of Frogcall. FATS have been asked to help at the Easter Show on the last day 27 April at the Reptile Expo. The people who run the Easter show may be considering whether to open Photo Jodi Rowley Leptobrachium leucops up one of the pavilions just for frogs and reptiles for a White-eyed Eastern spadefoot toad few days each year, so this day is a bit of a trial to see All images on the front page and this page are of species how it goes. They are expecting 20 to 25, 000 people to that Jodi Rowley and her colleagues, working with local visit the pavilion. students and scientists, have described from Bidoup-Nui Punia mentioned the low key family day rally, to raise Ba National Park in Vietnam. awareness of the impacts of Climate Change and the Leptolalax bidoupensis need for governments to take action now. Bidoup Asian Leaf-litter toad Photo Jodi Rowley odi Rowley was our main speaker. She talked to J us about Vampire Flying Frogs, Rhacophorus vampyrus from the family Rhacophoridae, genus Rhacophorus. Jodi discovered it and named it after its tadpoles. The name has been given a lot of attention, landing on the front page of National Geographic news and other media sites. National Geographic had supported her on a previous amphibian trip. It was feature on Facebook. There has been a dodge ball team named after the frog. In March 2011, Jodi went along to watch their game at Five Dock, where they presented her with a free T Shirt. Her paper on the frog was one of the ten most accessed items on the scientific journal, downloaded 3,000 times, partly due to its really cool name unlike the tiny leaf litter frogs. You can check out Jodi’s web site http://www.jodirowley.com and Facebook facebook.com/jodirowley Jodi displayed many fine frog images such as the Orange-bellied Leaf Litter Frog and Horned Frogs, lush forest landscapes, campsites and steams. There were many questions from the floor at the end of her presentation such as about collecting specimens and identifying calls in the forest. Thank you Jodi for sharing your cool images of so many beautifully patterned frogs, frog call recordings, short videos, stories of travelling, camping, local customs, unique beverages such as local rice wine, field Vampire Flying frogs dodge ball team emblem adventures and of amphibian species yet to be described. MW THANK YOU MARION ANSTIS The better known Darwin's Frog (R.. darwinii) is now LOTHAR VOIGT AND ALICE VOIGT classified as vulnerable. Your best chance to see one alive, is go to the US reptile and frog fairs or visit f Marion Anstis hadn't helped me convert Frogcall commercial breeders, who regard it as a prized animal. I into a digital publication, FATS would not have been in a position to transmit it via email to our members. Up until 2010 our production of Frogcall had been partly “cut and paste” with scissors and glue! A big thank you to Alice Voigt who has patiently converted Frogcall’s twelve word documents into one condensed pdf file, ready to send electronically to you. If you would like to join the recipients’ list please email me at [email protected] We have about 132 people receiving Frogcall by email. FATS does not intend to stop the black and white posted version. We hope you enjoy the colour versions. I am preparing a list of members who only want their Frogcall by email/ digitally. Please let me know if you wish to receive Frogcall only by email. Thank you to all the members of FATS for making a contribution in many different ways to “saving frogs” and thank you again Marion, Alice and Lothar for making our pdf colour version of Frogcall possible. Monica Wangmann http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhinoderma It’s a strange looking little beast with a head appearing to be too small for its body. It’s hard to see where the head finishes and the body begins. It is native to the cold forest streams of Argentina and Chile. They rely on body form and camouflage to protect them from predators. The most striking feature is the way the tadpoles are raised inside the vocal sac of the male. The males stand by the spawn which typically has about 30 eggs, laid on the forest floor, for about two weeks. After that the male appears to consume the young tadpoles with their large yoke sacs, into his large baggy vocal chamber. When the tadpoles metamorphose into frogs, he coughs them up and they hop off by themselves. There is a possibility that captive bred frogs may be used to repopulate the wild habitats but this is unviable until scientists work out why they are dying. There is uncontrolled logging and mining. Maybe Darwin’s Frog will have a future, now that Chileans have taken an Arthur White, Jodi Rowley and Marion Anstis 4/2011 interest. FATS MEETING 1 APRIL 2011 continued In 1902 a second specimen was discovered in highland rthur White spoke about Darwin’s Frog, areas in Chile, above the alpine forest and tree line, in A (Rhinoderma darwinii). It was discovered by frozen bog country, known as tundra. It was seen again Charles Darwin on his trip with the English ship in 1950 and last seen in 1980. Unlike Darwin’s Frog it is HMS Beagle in the South America’s but was a rusty colour. There is no biological data available on described by French Zoologist André Marie Constant this second species other than the collector’s notes, Duméril and his assistant Gabriel Bibron. The indicating that the animals were sitting out in open bog. scientists at that time had come to a gentleman’s They have targeted searches in the last few years but agreement, frog and reptile material was given to the none have been found. Arthur took many questions from French taxonomists to describe and mammals and birds the floor. given to the English naturalists in return. It is a poorly Peter Street showed us photos of Red-eyed Tree Frogs known frog with most research being done on captive found locally, however their populations have declined bred species.
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