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FEATURE ARTICLES . Chasing OpportunisticBullsnakes (Pituophis catenifer sayi) in Wisconsin: Scavenging by On the Road to Understanding the Ecology and Conservation of the Midwest’s Giant Serpent ...... Joshua M. Kapfer 190 Larval. The Shared Spot-legged History of Treeboas (Corallus grenadensis) and HumansTreefrogs on Grenada: , A Hypothetical Excursion ...... Robert W. Henderson 198 megacephalusRESEARCH ARTICLES (Anura: ) . The Texas Horned Lizard in Central and Western Texas ...... Emily Henry, Jason Brewer, Krista Mougey, and Gad Perry 204 . The Knight Anole (KrunalAnolis equestris Trivedi) in Florida1, Bartosz Nadolski2, and Pongthep Suwanwaree2 ...... Brian J. Camposano, Kenneth L. Krysko, Kevin M. Enge, Ellen M. Donlan, and Michael Granatosky 212 126, Kasturba Mahila Society, Palanpur patiya, Surat-395009, Gujarat, India ([email protected]) CONSERVATION2School of Biology,ALERT Institute of Science, Suranaree University of Technology, Thailand 30000 . World’s Mammals in Crisis ...... 220 . More Than Mammals ...... 223 . The “Dow Jones Index” of Biodiversity ...... 225

HUSBANDRY he Spot-legged Treefrog. Captive Care ( Polypedatesof the Central Netted megacephalus Dragon ...... ), also have been found to contain Shannon 300–400Plummer 226 eggs and often are in Tknown as the Whipping , is abundant shallow, still water, typically attached to emergent vegetation and widely distributedPROFILE in tropical and subtropical central, (Christy et al. 2007). Little is known about scavenging behav- . Kraig Adler: A Lifetime Promoting Herpetology ...... Michael L. Treglia 234 southern, and southwestern China (including Hong Kong), ior in larval treefrogs, although Street et al. (2013) reported northeastern India,COMMENTARY northern Vietnam, and Thailand. It may tadpoles of Osteopilus septentrionalis () scavenging on also occur in Myanmar. The Turtlesand LaosHave Been (Frost Watching 2018; Me ...... Lau 2009). insects. Herein we report larval Eric Gangloff Polypedates 238 megacephalus scav- These occupyBOOK a wide REVIEW range of habitats, including dis- enging on a frog carcass. turbed areas such as .thoseThreatened converted Amphibians toof the agricultural World edited by useS.N. Stuart,and M. Hoffmann, At J.S.2125 Chanson, h N.A.on Cox,31 May 2017, during a field survey near human habitation.R. It Berridge, breeds P. Ramani, in still and B.E.water. Young Foam...... nests at Sakaerat Biosphere Reserve, Robert Powell Thailand 243 (14.50299°N,

 CONSERVATION RESEARCH REPORTS: Summaries of Published101.94901°E; Conservation Research WGS Reports 84), ...... we observed 245 P. megacephalus tad-  NATURAL HISTORY RESEARCH REPORTS: Summaries of Publishedpoles scavenging Reports on Natural on History the ...... remains of a 247 frog floating in a fresh-  NEWBRIEFS ...... water tank (Fig...... 1A) with a diameter 248 of approximately 1 m  EDITORIAL INFORMATION ...... 251  FOCUS ON CONSERVATION: A Project You Can Support ...... and a depth of 12.7 cm. We identified 252 the tadpoles on the basis of their gray coloration, oval head and body shape, lat- eral eyes, silver-white venter, narrowly pointed tail fin, and downward-directed mouth. We initially observed a large Front Cover. Shannon Plummer. groupBack of Cover. tadpoles Michael trying Kern to feed on the carcass of the frog, but Totat et velleseque audant mo Totat et velleseque audant mo estibus inveliquo velique rerchil asestibus the scavenginginveliquo velique continued, rerchil only a few individuals were able erspienimus, quos accullabo. Ilibus erspienimus,to feed at quos a time accullabo. (Fig. Ilibus 1B). The scavenging continued for 32 h aut dolor apicto invere pe dolum untilaut dolor the apicto carcass invere waspe dolum essentially gone. We were unable to iden- fugiatis maionsequat eumque fugiatis maionsequat eumque moditia erere nonsedis ma sectiatur tifymoditia the erere frog nonsedis from ma thesectia -carcass as the body was at an advanced ma derrovitae voluptam, as quos stagetur ma of derrovitae decomposition voluptam, as when first encountered (Fig. 1C). To accullabo. our knowledge, this is the first report of scavenging by larval P. megacephalus.

Acknowledgement We are thankful to the team of the Sakaerat Najas Project for assisting with fieldwork. Thanks also to the Sakaerat Environmental Research Station and Director Surachit Waengsothorn for constant support and motivation.

Literature Cited Christy, M.T., C.S. Clark, D.E. Gee II, D. Vice, D.S. Vice, M.P. Warner, C.L. Tyrrell, G.H. Rodda, and J.A. Savidge. 2007. Recent records of alien anurans Fig. 1. Larval scavenging an unidentified frog carcass on the Pacific Island of Guam. Pacific Science 61: 469–483. (A); closeup showing a tadpole scavenging the carcass (B & C). Note the Frost, D.R. 2018. Polypedates megacephalus. of the World: An advanced state of decomposition of the frog. Photographs by Krunal Trivedi. Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History, New

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