We're gonna knock over the bank, see? And Corageous Cat and Minute Mouse aint gonna get in the way, see?
Posted on 07/14/2011 7:35:18 AM PDT by Red Badger
Scientists scouring the mountains of Borneo spotted a toad species last seen in 1924 by European explorers and provided the world with the first photographs of the colorful, spindly legged creature, a researcher said Thursday.
In recent years, the Washington-based Conservation International placed the Sambas stream toad, also known as the Bornean rainbow toad, on a world "Top 10 Most Wanted Lost Frogs" and voiced fears it might be extinct.
Researchers found three of the slender-limbed toads living on trees during a night search last month in a remote mountainous region of Malaysia's eastern Sarawak state in Borneo, said Indraneil Das, a conservation professor at the Sarawak Malaysia University who led the expedition.
Only illustrations of the toads previously existed. Das said his team first decided to seek the toad last August, but months of searching proved fruitless until they went higher up the Penrissen mountain range, which has rarely been explored in the past century.
"It is good to know that nature can surprise us when we are close to giving up hope, especially amidst our planet's escalating extinction crisis," Robin Moore, a specialist on amphibians at Conservation International, said in a statement announcing the discovery.
The toads found on three separate trees measured up to 2 inches (5.1 centimeters) in size and comprised an adult male, an adult female and a juvenile, the statement said.
Das declined to reveal the exact site of his team's discovery because of fears of illegal poaching due to strong demand for bright-hued amphibians. Researchers will continue work to find out more about the Borneo Rainbow Toad and other amphibians in Penrissen.
Conservationists say many endangered animals in Borneo are threatened by hunting and habitat loss sparked by logging, plantations and other human development.
More information: Conservation International: http://tinyurl.com/25k8yr2
We're gonna knock over the bank, see? And Corageous Cat and Minute Mouse aint gonna get in the way, see?
Two different species to a biologist; one would think they’d be more rigorous in print. A toad is of the family Bufonidae and a frog is of the family Ranidae. The distinction is unimportant to me personally as well but if this purports to be a scientific document I think more care should be used.
This is further PROOF that scientists do not know what is extinct, what is not, what is endangered, etc.
It is all hysteria to get power and money.
Ask any female if you drop one down her blouse if it makes any difference..............;^)
I think it’s safe to say that scientists can label something endangered. Extinction requires the proof of that absence of something. Last I checked, the Earth was pretty large.
http://www.eastlandvisitor.com/oldRipHistory.html
You may be thinking of Old Rip.
LOL, good one!!!!
Queer toads? Who knew?
Borneo Rainbow Toad? Weren’t they the opening band for the rolling stones?
So now the question “if no one sees a Bornean Rainbow Toad for 87 years,do they still exist?” has been answered.
For some reason this popped in my head when I saw the title:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17FX9tFUUjg
I don’t know about eating them, but they would make a cool looking boots and belt combo
It’s definitely a toad. As weird as it may sound, when I was a kid, I wanted to be a herpatologist when I grew up. From age 4 or so to about age 11 or 12. I knows me my toads, and that there is one of ‘em. Pretty little gal, too. I’d be willing to bet she made some very lucky male rainbow toad a wonderful wife.
All that hyerventialting is causing more CO2 to be released and increasing global warming. That gal needs to calm the heck down! /s
Sure it’s a toad. So why is it listed on a list of the ten most looked for frogs?
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