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    I dont know if any of you will be in the new york city area within the next few days but have a look at this:


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    im planning on running down tomorrow. This exhibition has been up for a while, and I hope I dont miss it! From what I hear there are 200+ live specimens. Thats almost as much as some of you guys...

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    Thanks for posting this .
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    I just read this on their African Bullfrog page: "The male guards the tadpoles, which swim around him for protection. While protecting the swimming tadpoles, he also feeds on them."

    This has been proven to not be the case - the guarding male will not eat his tadpoles. I'm very disappointed that an authoritative place like that doesn't check their facts.
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    I was in Manhattan a few weeks and ended up getting to see this. It was pretty fun. Shall I upload some pictures from it?

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    Definitely upload some pictures!

    And yeah there were some strange happenings for sure, but all in all it was a nice exhibit. They also kept about 5 different species of darts in 1 large vivarium. And I noticed that Dendrobates azureus was listed as Dendrobates tinctorius. Is this a commonly accepted? Am I behind the times? I knew that they were closely related but i did not know they lumped them together

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mattiez View Post
    Shall I upload some pictures from it?
    By all means, please do.

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    And I noticed that Dendrobates azureus was listed as Dendrobates tinctorius. Is this a commonly accepted? Am I behind the times? I knew that they were closely related but i did not know they lumped them together
    Azureus no longer has species status. It's considered a locale/morph of tinctorius.
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    john do you know on what grounds the species status was revoked? lack of genetic variation? do you know where I might be able to read up on it?

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    I saw this exhibit when it came to the Museum of Science in Boston. I was a little disapointed that every frog I saw I have or can get easily. I wanted to see rarer species, like Dyscophus antogilii, Atelopus zeteki, or any of the Deullmanohyla frogs.

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    Quote Originally Posted by zakaspfc View Post
    john do you know on what grounds the species status was revoked? lack of genetic variation? do you know where I might be able to read up on it?
    Since many physical differences exist between these two frogs, they are still referred to as different species by the uninformed. Officially D. azureus is no longer recognized by herpetologists, though.

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    Quote Originally Posted by zakaspfc View Post
    john do you know on what grounds the species status was revoked? lack of genetic variation? do you know where I might be able to read up on it?
    I believe it was based on phylogenetics but I don't know what paper it was published in.
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