• Skip to main content
  • Skip to header right navigation
  • Skip to site footer
  • WordPress
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Instagram
  • LinkedIn
  • YouTube
Science Update

Science Update

Sharing Science | Satisfying Curiosity | Debunking BS

  • Spotlights
  • Reality Check
  • Why Is It?
  • Radio Archives
  • Sciup @ School
Home » Radio Archive » Daily Show » Amphibian ARC

Amphibian ARC

July 19, 2017
https://podcast.scienceupdate.com/170719_sciup_rescue.mp3

Podcast: Play in new window

BOB HIRSHON (host):

An ARC for protecting threatened frogs. I’m Bob Hirshon and this is Science Update.

Most shipping containers found along the Panama Canal are filled with goods and produce. But at the Amphibian Rescue Center, or ARC, the containers are filled with frogs. Smithsonian conservation biologist Brian Gratwicke calls them Amphibian Rescue Pods.

BRIAN GRATWICKE (Smithsonian National Zoological Park):

So we  have racks and tanks and air conditioning systems, automated misting systems, special water, that keeps the fungus out and keeps the frogs safe inside.

HIRSHON:

The fungus he’s referring to is a frog-killing epidemic especially bad in Panama’s mountain valleys.

GRATWICKE:

It’s cool and moist all year round, and the frogs there have been particularly hard hit.

HIRSHON:

The ARC project not only protects the frogs, but creates an opportunity for wide-scale research into how animals can be re-introduced into the wild. I’m Bob Hirshon, for AAAS, the science society.

Story by Bob Hirshon

Category: Daily Show, Station DownloadTag: Environment & Conservation, Wildlife
Previous Post:Photosynthetic Heart
Next Post:Gut Microbes & Longevity

Sidebar

Radio Program Archives

Want to learn more about the brain? The environment? Here you can browse the topics that come up regularly on Science Update.

Search the Archives

Categories

  • Daily Show
  • Station Download
  • Weekly Show

Find By Tag

  • 2020
  • Acoustics & Sound
  • Aging
  • Animal Behavior
  • Anthropology
  • Archaeology
  • Astronomy & Space
  • Biology
  • Brain Science
  • Bugs
  • Chemistry
  • Children & Families
  • cicadas
  • Climate & Weather
  • Communications
  • Computer Science
  • Economics & Business
  • Education
  • Energy
  • Engineering & Technology
  • Environment & Conservation
  • Genetics & Evolution
  • Geology
  • Marine Science
  • Materials Science
  • Mathematics
  • Medicine & Health
  • Microbiology
  • Nanotechnology
  • Nutrition & Food Science
  • Paleontology & Dinosaurs
  • Physics
  • Plants & Agriculture
  • Political Science
  • Reality Check
  • Social & Behavioral Sciences
  • Sports & Fitness
  • spotlight
  • Spotlight Bugs
  • Terrorism & War
  • Why Is It? Questions
  • Wildlife
  • Year in Review

Find By Date

Science Update
  • About Science Update
  • Privacy Policy
  • Terms of Use

Follow Us

  • Facebook
  • YouTube

Recent Posts

Mayan Honeybee hives
House sparrow wearing top hat rides aboard a red fireworks rocket

Copyright © 2023 · Springtail Media LLC · All Rights Reserved · Powered by Pongos