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 Tadpoles“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…
View More underwater springtimeunderwater II
During a sunny day at the end of March, one can usually observe thousands of tadpoles in the shallow waters inhabited by amphibians, but this…
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Yesterday I went underwater for the first time. The weather had been good for some days and on several locations the amphibians had started their…
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When Spring arrives and newts migrate to their ponds, they prepare themselves to reproduce. Especially males grow large crests and undergo a dramatic color change.…
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Autumn has arrived and forest floors are covered with thousands of leaves in a wide variety of colors. Most amphibians in Western Europe are now searching…
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Past spring we found a special Alpine newt (Ichthyosaura alpestris) during fieldwork. It is an adult male, but has a very short body, while its head,…
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