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Bizarre chirruping Purple Frog captured on film for the first timeJeremy Hance, mongabay.comJanuary 07, 2009 Species spends most of its life underground, emerging only during monsoon season
The frog evaded discovery for so long, because it spends the majority of its life buried up to four meters underground, only surfacing for a few weeks during India’s monsoon to mate. This is not the only aspect of the species that makes it notable however: the purple frog comprises an entirely new family of amphibian. The family, called Nasikabatrachidae, is the first new amphibian family since 1926. According to the EDGE program, it is believed the frog’s unique family has evolved independently for over 130 million years with the purple frog as its last representative.
For footage of the frog please see EDGE’s blog: http://www.edgeofexistence.org/edgeblog Related articles Photos of the top 10 most threatened amphibians January 21, 2008 As amphibians decline worldwide, EDGE organization releases list of the 100 most endangered and unique. Saving forgotten species: an interview with Carly Waterman, Program Coordinator of EDGE May 27, 2008 In January 2007 a new conservation initiative arrived with an unusual level of media attention. The attention was due to the fact that the organization was doing things differently—very differently. Instead of focusing their efforts on the usual conservation-mascots like the panda or tiger, they introduced the public to long-ignored animals. The new initiative EDGE (Evolutionary Distinct and Globally Endangered), launched by the Zoological Society of London, was not concerned with an animal's perceived popularity, rather the chose their focal species on a combined measurement of a species' biological uniqueness and its vulnerability to extinction.
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