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Rainforest frogs flourish with artificial homes

Buckets imitating mammal-made puddles may boost tadpole survival

Poison frog

MOVING DAY  A male brilliant-thighed poison frog totes his tadpoles to their new home. Rain-filled wallows left behind by peccaries are prized real estate for the frogs.

Andrius Pašukonis

By Kate Baggaley

- More than 2 years ago

Build pig puddles in the rainforest and they will come. When scientists created wallows mimicking those left by wild peccaries, a local population of rainforest frogs that mature in puddles grew by about 50 percent, the researchers report in the Jan.