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A Window into the Global Amphibian Crisis: Discovering the Biology of North America's Most Secretive Frog as it Approaches Extinction
Friday 9-Mar-12 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM CST
Event Description
The Call of the Wild Speaker Series is generously sponsored by Charles T. Bauer Foundation, The Tapeats Fund, Martel and Speros Conservation Endowment, and United Airlines The Official Airline of the Houston Zoo.
Friday March 9, 2012
A Window into the Global Amphibian Crisis: Discovering the Biology of North America's Most Secretive Frog as it Approaches Extinction.
Featuring Dr. Michael Lannoo. Indiana University School of Medicine
Purchase tickets:
$10 Students(ID required), Seniors (65 and over) and Children (12 years and over).
$12 for Zoo Members(amount will be discounted at the end of check out process)
$18 for non-members
If you have problems with this online system tickets will be available at the door.
"Whether as author, university professor, muddied researcher in a marsh, featured Discovery.com expert talking with kids about amphibian declines, or opponent in the political arena with Minnesota Governor Jesse "The Body" Ventura regarding the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency's plan to drop funding for most deformed frog research, Dr. Michael "The Thinker" Lannoo loses no opportunity to go to the mat for amphibians."
-Chicago Field Museum
Crawfish Frogs, a Texas native species, have been described as the most secretive frogs in North America. For the past three years Dr. Lannoo and his graduate students have been undertaking a variety of projects designed to learn the important aspects of the population biology and landscape use of this unusual animal in Indiana. The ultimate goal is to manage this species to prevent its extinction. In 2001, Dr, Lannoo was awarded the Parker/Gentry Award for Excellence and Innovation in Conservation Biology by the Field Museum of Natural History, in Chicago. This award honors “an outstanding individual, team or organization whose efforts are distinctive and courageous and have had a significant impact on preserving the world's natural heritage, and whose actions and approaches can serve as a model to others.”
A Window into the Global Amphibian Crisis: Discovering the Biology of North America's Most Secretive Frog as it Approaches Extinction
Friday 9-Mar-12 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM CST
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