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| A Titicaca water frog (Telmatobius culeus) in the rocks |
Once again
we went back to Titicaca Lake to work, This time to monitor the critically
endangered Titicaca Water frog Telmatobius culeus and to take samples of
Chytridium for the project that we are
involved and to obtain data about this species. We worked with our team
of students and volunteers during several days, this allowed us to obtain more data from different sites.
We found some sites with very few individuals but also other with several. With this research we try to obtain data about where are the best populations in the lake.
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| trapping frogs in the lake to take Chytrid samples |
A very
shocking finding was that in some localities we found several dead individuals,
in one locality we found almost 50% of the individuals dead; it was impressing
to find just dead frogs and several individuals that were dying.
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| one of our sites with dead frogs |
We would
like to know what is the problem. For this reason we request the help from
people, universities or laboratories that can help us with this, to try to find
out the cause, to be able to act now
in a correct way to avoid more problems.
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| more dead frogs in the lake |
We hope
that this is an isolated case and that the problem will not expand. We have
some time, we can do things and we can try to work with this problem together.
