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151 Glassfrogs and Their Transparent Tricks
Episode 151

151 Glassfrogs and Their Transparent Tricks

Herpetological Highlights

March 7, 202327m 0s

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Show Notes

Some frogs can make themselves virtually invisible to would-be predators - we find out how.

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Main Paper References:

Taboada C, Delia J, Chen M, Ma C, Peng X, Zhu X, Jiang L, Vu T, Zhou Q, Yao J, O’Connell L, Johnsen S. 2022. Glassfrogs conceal blood in their liver to maintain transparency. Science 378:1315–1320. DOI: 10.1126/science.abl6620.

Other Links/Mentions:

Frog call: https://bit.ly/3xKrmRf 

Article about snake in the garden: https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/gran-79-who-cant-see-28946676 

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