New frog species found hiding in NYC (BBC)

[eppur_se_muova]

Scientists say they have found a new type of frog living in New York City.

While new species are usually discovered in remote regions, this so-far unnamed type of leopard frog was first heard croaking on Staten Island.

Jeremy Feinberg of Rutgers University in New Jersey noticed the frogs there had a call he had never heard before.

They look identical to other species, but genetic analysis showed they are a new species of leopard frog that probably once lived in Manhattan.

While studying leopard frogs Mr Feinberg noticed that instead of the long "snore" he was expecting, he heard a short, repetitive croak.
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more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-17367664
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1055790312000383

[virgogal]

1. Well I'll be damned. eom

[Dead_Parrot]

2. What you said.

This is not the first place I would have looked.

[lob1]

3. Would a New York frog hop? Or hip-hop?

[appal_jack]

6. They would 'Bring Da Ruckus'

"Shaolin shadowboxing, and the Wu-Tang sword style..."

-app

[Politicalboi]

4. Here's a video of the frog

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[appal_jack]

5. Shaolin represent, yo!

Wu Tang frogs aint nothin' to fuck with!

In all seriousness, Staten Island has a good bit of green space for such an urban area: its Green Belt, Pouch Camp, High Rock Park, Clay Pit Ponds State Park (where I worked my first summer job as part of a Youth Conservation Corps, more than twenty years ago).

Glad to learn that some unique wildlife continues to thrive in the wild interstices of New York.

-app