http://www.animalspix.com/ Daily animals pictures en Tue, 28 Aug 2007 06:22:30 +0200 engy http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Dotclear http://www.animalspix.com/post/2006/08/21/Golden-toad urn:md5:bfdbf7e016b5120047b092fbb86ec358 Tue, 22 Aug 2006 09:37:00 +0200 elo extinct <div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/thomashawk/90125879/"><img src="http://static.flickr.com/39/90125879_d7179d6173.jpg" alt="crapaud dorée" /></a></div><br /> <p><br />Golden toads used to live in high areas in tropical forests up the town of Monteverde of Costa Rica. Those five centimetres long toads’ male are orange almost fluorescent; females are yellow with black spots. They are considered extinct since 1989. Their reproduction’s necessary condition where quite delicate : between April and June, where it rains the most, they get out, reproduce and females then lay eggs in temporary ponds and brooks created by rain. This toad was a lot dependant on rain. Not enough rain, ponds get dry and larva die. Too much, brooks get down the mountains and dispatch larva. 1987 dryness created a bloodbath: 29 on a 43,500 potential larva lived. (This phenomena was observed by Marty Crump, herpetologist, who think El Niño and global warm are responsible for this animal’s extinction. </p> <p>(This picture is a sculpture, not a real toad.) </p> <br /><em> source : <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/thomashawk/90125879/">flickr (Thomas Hawk)</a> and <a hreflang="en" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Toad">wikipedia</a> | <a hreflang="fr" href="http://www.batraciens-reptiles.com/bufo_periglenes.htm">crapaud doré on batraciens-reptiles.com</a> | <a hreflang="fr" href="http://www.bagheera.com/inthewild/van_anim_gldntoad.htm">golden toad on bagheera</a><br /> </em>