Leatherback sea turtle behavior: stay near home or set off across the ocean?
Herpetology
The call of Panama’s iconic túngara frog, subject of study for several generations of tropical biologists at STRI, has been likened to the peacock’s tail as a model for studies of sexual selection, the life-or-death behavioral risks involved in reproduction, and the neurobiology of mate choice. Long-term studies of the red-eyed tree frog examine the developmental trade-offs of embryos that hatch early to avoid depredation. STRI is also the headquarters for an international captive breeding program to save threatened frog species from extinction due to a lethal fungal disease that has wiped out amphibians around the globe.
How frogs’ superpowers may have led to life on land
Red-eyed treefrog eggs hatch a plan to escape warming temperatures
The highlands of Panama, Central Panama and Darien identified among the 50 Threatened Amphibian Landscapes worldwide
Scientists from the Global South innovate to track ongoing amphibian pandemic
Artificial fertilization key to rescuing Panama’s endangered frogs from extinction
