Down in the cool alpine areas of Australia's snowy ranges, the bogs are silent. Yet only a few decades ago, they emitted a cacophony of strange sounds - a nasal ...
An emergency team of biologists in Australia flew to Kosciuszko National Park in New South Wales to assess damage to special enclosures for southern corroboree frogs.The Taronga Conservation Society ...
A deadly fungus has already wiped out 90 species and threatens 500 more but Anthony Waddle is hoping gene replacement could be their salvation ...
Del Leong (right) and her colleague trekked through Brindabella National Park to release 544 northern corroboree frogs. Source: Grace Black/Taronga Conservation Society Australia Hundreds of rare ...
Tucked away in a remote corner of the New South Wales Kosciuszko National Park lies a specially handcrafted haven, built to bring the critically endangered southern corroboree frogs back from the ...
More than 2000 eggs of the Southern Corroboree frog have been released in the high alpine areas of Kosciuszko National Park, by keepers from Taronga Zoo and Zoos Victoria in a bid to save the frog ...
For the first time in five years, a group of the critically-endangered northern corroboree frogs have been spotted in the wild. Australian Capital Territory (ACT) government ecologists discovered a ...
Dietary antioxidants can improve escape-response performance in adult vertebrates, but whether juveniles receive similar benefits remains untested. Here, we investigated the effect of two dietary ...
Many animals hibernate to survive winter conditions, however, arousal from hibernation generates reactive oxygen species (ROS) that can cause oxidative stress. Dietary antioxidants, like carotenoids, ...