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Ambystoma opacum, the beautiful Marbled Salamander is a metro Atlanta amphibian

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Panamanian White-spotted Glass Frog, Sachatamia albomaculata, guarding eggs

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Baby Tomistoma! Breeding false gharials at the Audubon Zoo.

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Ameerega bassleri, on exhibit at the Audubon Zoo

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Emerald Tree Boa in 'Nawlins'

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Optimistic about this year's Flatwoods Salamander larval season

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SEPARC 2015 was a great conference and another opportunity to draw a SE herp - Diamondback Terrapin

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Update: Rabbs' Fringe-limbed Tree Frog, Ecnomiohyla rabborum out and about today.

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Incilius coniferus, the Green Spiny Toad spawning in the frog lab

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Panamanian Green Spiny Toad, Incilius coniferus eggs

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Puerto Rican Coqui — tiny frogs emerge directly from the eggs!

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Eleutherodactylus coqui emerging from their eggs. Coqui are direct developers and as you can see here, hatch out as little frogs, skipping the tadpole stage altogether. This series was taken in the Fuqua Conservatory

Cochranella granulosa, the Granular Glass Frog posing on a begonia.

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Nuptial pads on the thumb of a male Cruziohyla calcarifer. Indicating he's in breeding condition.

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Profile of the Blue Sided Frog, Agalychnis annae

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The beautiful Agalychnis annae, Blue Sided Leaf Frog.

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Leilani Munter placing a picture of our resident Rabbs' Fringe-limbed Tree Frog on her race car for her next race!

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Leilani Munter, and inspiring race care driver, activist and contributor to the feature film 'Racing Extinction' which sheds some much needed light on the global extinction crisis and features the Rabbs' Fring-limbed Tree Frog which is believed to be the last of its kind, and also resides in the frogPOD at the Garden. Here she is placing a Rabbs' frog decal on the side of her car, which she is about to take to 190 mph. A close-up of the Rabbs' Fringe-limbed Tree Frog decal on her car. The Rabbs' frog, Ecnomiohyla rabborum , was out in the frogPOD today when I checked on him    Leilani sent these pictures to me today from the Daytona Raceway, where she took her electric car, adorned with a picture of our Rabbs' Fringe-limed Tree Frog, to 190 mph. Leilani, visited the Garden after the frog was projected 30 stories high on the UN building last October during the #ProjectingChange event which highlighted endangered species and the (then) u

Barking Tree Frog, Hyla gratiosa on exhibit at the Tennessee Aquarium

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Theloderma corticale, the Vietnamese Mossy Frog on exhibit at the Tennessee Aquarium

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Eleutherodactylus coqui, the Puerto Rican Coqui in the Conservatory

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Beautiful Nerodia fasciata yesterday in Early County, GA

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1,000 baby Axolotls developing! Some destined for the high elevation house at the Garden

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Agalychnis morletti, the Black Eye Leaf frog

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Update: Rabbs' Fringe-limbed Tree Frog today in the frogPOD

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Agalychnis morletti, the Black Eye Leaf Frog

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Agalychnis morletti, the Black Eye Leaf Frog

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