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Tuesday Feb 21, 2023
149 The Hidden Risk of Carrying Tadpoles
Tuesday Feb 21, 2023
Tuesday Feb 21, 2023
Brightly coloured frogs warn predators of their toxicity, but can tadpoles stop this message from being delivered?
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Main Paper References:
Toro-Gómez MP, Carvajal-Castro JD, Casas-Cardona S, Vargas-Salinas F. 2022. Experimental evidence in a poison frog model suggests that tadpole transport on the dorsum may affects warning signal effectiveness in poison frogs. Evolutionary Ecology. DOI: 10.1007/s10682-022-10219-z.
Other Links/Mentions:
Dendrobates leucomelas call recorded by Matthias Klethe from: http://www.dendrowiki.org/dendrobates-leucomelas.html
Other information about D. leucomelas from: https://animaldiversity.org/accounts/Dendrobates_leucomelas/
Editing and Music:
Podcast edited by Emmy – https://www.fiverr.com/emmyk10
Intro/outro – Treehouse by Ed Nelson
Species Bi-week theme – Michael Timothy
Other Music – The Passion HiFi, https://www.thepassionhifi.com
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