The acorn woodpecker is the only bird that can eat chestnuts and acorns. These birds hide the seeds in the cracks of tree bark. Squirrels will raid the bird's hiding spots and in turn hide the seeds on the ground. Most of the seeds are eventually eaten but a few grow into large chestnut and oak trees.
Protecting the frogs to save the forests
Protecting the frogs to save the forests Bob Murphy, a Toronto herpetologist, believes that
by protecting the frogs you can help protect the rainforests, and
by protecting the rainforests you can protect the new
pharmaceutical drugs that are coming out of the rainforests. Dr
Murphy has recently added a Mandarin rat snake, 6 Asian tree frogs,
4 bird-dropping frogs and 22 fire-bellied toads to the collection
of the Metro Toronto Zoo from a recent trip to North Vietnam. His
idea is to try to breed some of the frogs in captivity to try and
establish new populations of them. Since 1994, Dr Murphy has
collected 275 amphibians and reptiles, and about 150 different
species of frogs from around the world. 63 of the frog species had
been unknown until he discovered them. On his latest trip,
scientists collected 88 species of reptiles and amphibians, of
which 16 were previously undescribed. One of these species is the
Asian tree frog which is notable in that it has a different
breeding pattern from other frogs of the same species. 12 JULY 1999
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