Captive
breeding is not just keeping individuals in captivity, one need to be able to obtain
offspring from the species. This is the reason that at the moment we are
testing different ways to breed the species that we have in captivity. We test
different things and we try to find the best option, so in the future we can
use this experience to breed our species and work in the future reintroduction
projects we plan to do.
This year
we were able to have another offspring of our model species Telmatobius hintoni. The founders were collected
when they were tadpoles and this year after some months with several signs of
breeding behavior the frogs laid their eggs and now we have several tadpoles
that are doing well.
These steps
will allow us to improve the work and also to do more research in the natural
history of the species, and probably also to start testing with future
reintroductions.
There are
much more steps that we need to go, but slowly we are finding very interesting
results and also this give us a hope for the future of at least some species of
bolivian amphibians.
