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149 The Hidden Risk of Carrying Tadpoles
Episode 149

149 The Hidden Risk of Carrying Tadpoles

Herpetological Highlights

February 21, 202323m 7s

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Show Notes

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