Over two years after they were removed from California's San Gabriel Mountains due to the Bobcat Fire, endangered mountain yellow-legged frogs have been released into their native habitat.
The Aquarium of the Pacific acquired a total of 275 mountain yellow-legged frog tadpoles last July, according to Erin Lundy, who helps care for the frogs at the aquarium. The aquarium received two tadpole cohorts: one cohort of tadpoles bred at the Los Angeles Zoo and half that were rescued during the fire that devastated their natural habitat.
Amphibians like frogs play a key role in the ecosystem, according to Lundy."When you remove amphibians from a habitat, you're actually losing all of these really interconnected parts of that food web, that can be pretty detrimental to how the ecosystem functions," she explained.Mountain yellow-legged frogs tend to prey on insects including beetles, ants, and flies.
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