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Atelopus varius - Variable Harlequin Frog
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Atelopus varius (captive-bred for release)
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Atelopus varius (captive-bred for release)
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Heidi Ross, director of our facility at the Nispero zoo with baby Atelopus varius
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F1 Atelopus varius
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Atelopus varius with red elastomer fluorescent tattoo NWMarine techonlogy (captive-bred for release)
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Atelopus varius in their critter keepers for transport
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Jorge Guerrel and Orlando Garces at the Gamboa Panama Amphibian Rescue and Conservation Project facility with a car packed full of frogs before transporting them to a release site in Panama,
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Orlando checking on frogs at a temporary holding facility the morning of the release day.
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Field release team
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Orlando Ariel checking field mesocosms - we hope to understand how tetradotoxin content of skin changes post-release using this aspect of the study.
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Female Atelopus varius exploring her new home
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Radiotracking
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Roberto Ibanez Panama Amphibian Rescue and Conservation Project Director
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Atelopus varius image paired with thermal image (next)
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Thermal image to evaluate frog body temperature in relation to the thermal maximum for the chytrid fungus (28C).
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our colleague from MiAmbiente participating in the release
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Post-release monitoring involves mark recapture surveys of individually identified frogs to estiomate population size. Heidi Ross and Jorge Guerrel work a terestrial transect at the release site.
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Roberto releasing one of the stream-transect Atelopus varius
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soggy dry season field work
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Jorge Guerrel with a couple of baggies of frogs, held temporarily in bags to carry them to their release spot at the correct transect segment
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Eric Klaphake, one of our collaborating veterinarians and amphibian specialist from the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo
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Jorge Guerrel (PARC manager of Gamboa facility), Blake Klocke (GMU PhD Candidate) and Eric Klaphake (Cheyenne Mountain Zoo Veterinarian) fit radiotracking devices onto frogs
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Inside Pod 6 at the Panama Amphibian Rescue and Conservation Project in Gamboa
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Blake Klocke and Eric Klaphake swabbing a sub-sample of frogs for Bd pre-release.
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Atelopus varius release trials
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Brian Gratwicke in a rescue pod working to prepare frogs for the release trial.