Smurfs: a strange title for a blog post about yet another amazing frog species… But after seeing these frogs, one can easily understand how this…
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Yesterday I received more good news. The tadpole picture shown here below received the first prize in the category “compact cameras” in the Our World…
View More Our World Underwater 2014Award
I am happy to announce that I won the first prize of a nationwide amphibian photography contest in India. The winning picture (above, but differently…
View More AwardAmphibians of the high Andes in Bolivia
I am currently in Bolivia to study the critically endangered frog Psychrophrynella illimani in the high Andes. I will post some more information about this work…
View More Amphibians of the high Andes in BoliviaAustrian mountain lakes
Earlier this month I was invited to a good friend’s wedding in Austria. The week before the festivities, I took a short holiday in the…
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When the Edible frogs (Pelophylax kl. esculentus) are calling again, one knows that summer arrived. On hot days and nights, loud choruses of this frog…
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The adult common frogs and toads (Rana temporaria and Bufo bufo respecitively) are already back in their land habitat for a while, but they have…
View More TadpolesChile Mountains False Toad
The Chile Mountains False Toad (Telmatobufo venustus) is a remarkable animal. Not only is it spectacularly colored, but it has a quite interesting life history…
View More Chile Mountains False Toad“Proud to be a fox”
“Red beast in trouble” is what you read in the logo on top. And they are in trouble indeed. Despite scientific reports proving that hunting…
View More “Proud to be a fox”underwater springtime
I have compiled a short movie of some fragments shot during the past underwater sessions. I’m not really into movie making, but sometimes it is…
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