Under Threat - The Panamanian Golden Frog

Frogs are amphibians that normally live on terrestrial and aquatic organisms. It is thought that there are about 5000 kinds of frogs in the world.

Frogs are known for coiled sticky tongue. Frogs are also known for their ability to breathe through the skin and lungs.

Some frogs may be over 50 times longer, which makes the frog jump very high. In cold climates, many frogs hibernate on mountains of compost and large mountains of mud

Most frogs have handcuffs and feet that frogs swim, jump, and even climb. Frogs tend to lay eggs in ponds and lakes (called frog spawning), but it is also known that some frogs lay eggs in large puddles. A small frog is called a cockroach and it is based entirely on water until it can form an arm and a leg and climb out of the water.

In addition to polar regions, there are frogs all over the world. This is true, but a lot of 5000 species frogs were found in the Southern Hemisphere rainforest and the Southern Hemisphere.

The population of some frog species frogs is significantly reduced mainly due to deforestation and climate change. Because frogs are very susceptible to atmospheric changes, many frog species can only exist outside their habitat.

Many species of frogs, especially frogs living in the tropics, are known to contain toxic chemicals that prevent frogs from eating potential predators. The poisoning level of various frog species is different from mild poisoning and mass poisoning. This is fatal for animals that finally eat it.

Panama gold frog (Atelopus zeteki) is Panama's unique pelican. Panama's golden frog was sitting on the cloudy slope of Cordillera in the Midwest of Panama. IUCN lists it as a serious endangered species, but in reality it has been in danger of extinction since 2007. To protect the species, people were collected for artificial breeding. Another common name, Zetek's frog and nickname zeteki is to commemorate the insect scholar James Zetek

The golden frog in Panama looks like a smooth frog, but it is classified as "Bufonidae". Like other toxic Panama amphibians, golden frogs secrete poison to help protect themselves from predators. In the case of Golden frog, this is a water soluble neurotoxin called zethexitoxin. In dry habitats, adult men weigh from 35 mm (1.4 in.) To 40 mm (1.6 in.), From 3 grams (0.11 ounces) to 5 grams (0.18 ounces). The range of adult female is 45 - 55 mm, 4-7 grams. It is larger in the wet forest, men up to 48 mm, weight up to 12 g, women up to 63 mm, weight up to 15 g. They live in tropical forests, especially in the mountains near Ogawa

Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis Before the fungus spread to the habitat of Panama 's golden frog, the conservation groups gathered Panama' s golden frogs and put them in captured living - support colonies. The amphibian skin is the host of many resident bacterial communities, and in some amphibians it functions as a defense against pathogens. Researchers sequenced the wild captured Panama goldfrog from the same population and the captured pancreatic goldfrog bacterial community and assessed how long-term capture affected the crowd. The species abundance, phylogenetic diversity and community structure of the skin microbial flora were found to be significantly different between wild panama and captive Panama golden frog. But after being imprisoned for about eight years, the descendants of the original captive Panama gold frog shared 70% of the wild frogs and microbial communities.