This is an extraordinary frog, quite unique in several ways. It is one of the oldest frog species found in the forests of Brazil. It has an odd diet: fruit rather than insects. Not only is this frog a plant eater it may also be …
NEWS AND COMMENT: Did you realise that the well-known dish that the French love, frogs’ legs in garlic, are the product of mass animal cruelty? That’s what animal activists have said at the world’s biggest celebration of frogs legs in Vittel, eastern France. It is …
Everybody is familiar with the accident at reactor four of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in 1986. There is a film about it which is excellent by the way. It released the largest amount of radioactive material into the environment in human history. And still, …
World Frog Day means a chance to celebrate this amphibian and its existence on the planet. It’s today and it’s a time to put the frog in the forefront of people’s minds – temporarily. Quite a lot of people have frogs as pets because they …
Coolest little frog in the jungle. Or maybe he/she is a toad. I have no idea. I don’t have any information about the video except that it was uploaded by an Indian Forest Service official, Susanta Nanda. So, this is India. It does not help …
This is a bit of fun and it is about the animal-human relationship in a strict sense! I just like the expression on Vincent Price’s face. It makes a good screenshot image which hopefully catches the eye on the Internet. The repeating .gif video is …
A team of experts have joined forces to try and save the scrotum frog from becoming extinct. One of the major threats is their consumption by humans. The scientific name is Telmatobius culeus. A better name is the Titicaca water frog. They mainly live near …
