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Hundreds of endangered Toad Mountain harlequin froglets (Atelopus certus) explore their new home inside a plexiglass rearing tank at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Gamboa, Panama. The outside of the tank is covered in transparent labels, each indicating the date the froglets emerged from the water, as well as their parentage.
Keywords
- amphibian
- aquarium
- Atelopus certus
- Blue
- breeding program
- captivity
- Darien stubfoot toad
- day
- endangered
- frog
- froglet
- Gamboa
- glass
- Glove
- human hand
- indoors
- juvenile animal
- label
- large group of animals
- one person
- Panama
- Panama Amphibian Rescue and Conservation Project
- part of
- rare
- sanitary
- Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
- Toad
- Toad Mountain harlequin frog
- young animal
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