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A Frog That Fits on Your Fingertip

Monday January 8, 2007

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Small enough to fit on the tip of a finger, a lemur leaf frog mugs for the camera behind the scenes at the Bronx Zoo.

The frogs will be part of a new Panama collection at the Zoo's World of Reptiles.

In the wild, these frogs are critically endangered due in part to the rapid appearance of Chytridiomycosis - a fungal disease that has devastated amphibians across the planet, with as many as 30 percent of the world's frog species infected.

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