saltwater
06-05-2011, 10:18 AM
Next step is for the male specie of the human race......this will be true human development, a cause I will be wining to.
Captive male frog coughs up babies
http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Photo/_new/110603-coslog-captive-born-frog-1100a.photoblog600.jpgDante Fenolio
A captive bred Darwin's frog is held by a researcher shortly after it was coughed up from its dad's vocal sac. Ten baby frogs were coughed up at a breeding facility in Chile on Thursday.
By John Roach
A captive male Darwin's frog coughed up ten babies Thursday at a zoo in Santiago, Chile, a milestone in a project to save the amphibians from extinction.
The vulnerable species (http://www.iucnredlist.org/apps/redlist/details/19513/0) is one of two members of the only genus on Earth that rears its young inside of its vocal sac, a job taken on by the males.
"They have a small opening below their tongue. … After [the eggs] hatch, he takes the tadpoles into his mouth and manipulates them through that opening and into his vocal sac," Danté Fenolio, a conservation scientist with the Atlanta Botanical Garden (http://www.atlantabotanicalgarden.org/), explained to me today.
"For about 60 days, they go all the way through to development inside his vocal sac. At that point when they are ready, fully developed, he coughs up fully formed miniatures of the adult."
Fenolio is working on a captive breeding project (http://www.savedarwinsfrogs.org/) with the National Zoo (http://www.parquemet.cl/index.php?cat_id=1) and Universidad Catolica (http://www.bio.puc.cl/caseb/paginas_i/cont_acerca.html) in Santiago to build a so-called assurance population of the frogs that can be released into the wild once, or if, environmental threats to their natural habitat are thwarted.
The babies coughed up Thursday are the second batch produced by the frogs, a sign that the project is meeting success......
http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/06/03/6780149-captive-male-frog-coughs-up-babies
Captive male frog coughs up babies
http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Photo/_new/110603-coslog-captive-born-frog-1100a.photoblog600.jpgDante Fenolio
A captive bred Darwin's frog is held by a researcher shortly after it was coughed up from its dad's vocal sac. Ten baby frogs were coughed up at a breeding facility in Chile on Thursday.
By John Roach
A captive male Darwin's frog coughed up ten babies Thursday at a zoo in Santiago, Chile, a milestone in a project to save the amphibians from extinction.
The vulnerable species (http://www.iucnredlist.org/apps/redlist/details/19513/0) is one of two members of the only genus on Earth that rears its young inside of its vocal sac, a job taken on by the males.
"They have a small opening below their tongue. … After [the eggs] hatch, he takes the tadpoles into his mouth and manipulates them through that opening and into his vocal sac," Danté Fenolio, a conservation scientist with the Atlanta Botanical Garden (http://www.atlantabotanicalgarden.org/), explained to me today.
"For about 60 days, they go all the way through to development inside his vocal sac. At that point when they are ready, fully developed, he coughs up fully formed miniatures of the adult."
Fenolio is working on a captive breeding project (http://www.savedarwinsfrogs.org/) with the National Zoo (http://www.parquemet.cl/index.php?cat_id=1) and Universidad Catolica (http://www.bio.puc.cl/caseb/paginas_i/cont_acerca.html) in Santiago to build a so-called assurance population of the frogs that can be released into the wild once, or if, environmental threats to their natural habitat are thwarted.
The babies coughed up Thursday are the second batch produced by the frogs, a sign that the project is meeting success......
http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/06/03/6780149-captive-male-frog-coughs-up-babies