Animal Fact Guide's Wildlife Blog » montserrat http://www.animalfactguide.com/blog Amazing Animal Photos, Videos, and News Wed, 08 Feb 2012 20:59:26 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= Rare Frogs Airlifted to European Zoos http://www.animalfactguide.com/blog/2009/04/21/rare-frogs-airlifted-to-european-zoos/ http://www.animalfactguide.com/blog/2009/04/21/rare-frogs-airlifted-to-european-zoos/#comments Tue, 21 Apr 2009 17:44:16 +0000 Animal Fact Guide http://www.animalfactguide.com/blog/?p=488 Fifty mountain chicken frogs, rare amphibians native to the Caribbean islands of Dominica and Montserrat, have been airlifted to three European zoos when news spread that the mountain chicken frog population was succumbing to a deadly fungal disease called chytridiomycosis. The frogs are now housed in captive breeding units at the London Zoological Society, the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust in Jersey, and the Parken Zoo in Sweden.

Although they are called mountain chicken frogs, the large frogs actually live in the lowlands. Before their population was decimated by disease, they were eaten by locals; their flesh tastes similar to chicken.

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