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Life in the Dark: Wildlife From the Shadowy Corners of Our Planet Calhoun Lecture Wednesday, October 5 @ 7 p.m. Many life forms thrive in the darkest places on the planet, from watery depths to black subterranean haunts. Some are found within soil or even inside other organisms. Danté Fenolio, Atlanta Botanical Garden Amphibian Conservation Scientist, provides a rare glimpse of these creatures with a preview of images from a book he was recently awarded a grant to photograph. The Calhoun Lecture series is made possible by the generous support of the family of Marion Peel Calhoun. Admission is free and no reservations are required.

Eurycea waterlooensis Last night, Dante gave a talk at the monthly University of Georgia Herpetological Society meeting. His talk was titled ' A review of the obligate subterranean salamanders of central North America: biology, ecology, taxonomy'. It was a great talk, and a great time with our UGHS friends as usual!

As published on the SEPARC—Southeast Partners in Amphibian and Reptile Conservation—website (separc.org) ' Jill Anderson (NCPARC member) worked very hard to produce the linked PDF booklet, “Reptiles and Amphibians In Your Backyard” along with other folks from NCSU, NC State Museum of Natural Sciences and NC Wildlife Resources Commission.  I think we ended up with a very nice product that I hope will be very useful to many folks' To read more, download or view the pdf here!   (reposted with permission)

Bush Warriors , a Global Voice for Wildlife . published an article detailing the Garden's work with endangered frog species in Chile. Click here to read more ... a screen grab from the blog [ read the article ]

The Aquatic Plants pond at The Garden Dante Fenolio, Amphibian Conservation Scientist here at the Garden, might also be called "The Frog Whisperer' as he dazzled visitors this Sunday with his skill at calling a male Bullfrog | Lithobates catesbeianus over to him from the aquatic plants pond. Seeing is believing! After he came over to Dante, Garden visitors were holding the friendly frog for photo opps. The Bullfrog climbed right up on Dante's hand! Here he is approaching us Dante's daughter, Sierra bravely holding the large frog for pictures Sierra is very happy holding the large bullfrog After the photos were taken, one of the visitors released him back into his pond

Rhinoderma darwinii | Darwin's frog The Association of Zoos and Aquarium (AZA) published two articles this month highlighting the Darwin's frog | Rhinoderma darwinii conservation collaboration between the Atlanta Botanical Garden and the National Zoo of Chile . The first one was in their monthly magazine, Connect (see below) Also on their Blog: ZooExplorer Herpetologist Bill Lamar holding a Darwin's frog | Rhinoderma darwinii