Besides searching locations where Romeo originates from, including streams that have not been surveyed for more than a decade, there are also hopes that the team will find two other water frog species – Telmatobius sibiricus and Telmatobius edaphonastes – which are feared to have become extinct. The online appeal, a collaboration between Global Wildlife Conservation, the Bolivian Amphibian Initiative and, has proved such a success that an expedition team comprising of two biologists and a veterinarian are conducting two trips a month during the Bolivian rainy season along riverine habitat where they are most likely to come across survivors of the species. Otherwise, my entire existence as we know it is over…” I just need another Sehuencas like myself. “As for who I'm looking for, I'm not picky. I do love food, though, and will throw a pair of pants on and get out of the house if there's a worm or snail to be eaten. I tend to keep to myself and have the best nights just chilling at home, maybe binge-watching the waters around me. posted an online profile of Romeo in which he grins: “I'm a pretty simple guy. To help raise his profile and fund-raise for the expedition. Romeo was taken into captivity 10 years ago as a safeguard to protect the species from extinction but now he is being described as an “endling” – the feared last of his line – as he swims and feasts on worms at an aquarium in Bolivia’s K’ayra Center of the Museo de Historia Natural Alcide d’Orbigny in Cochabamba City. The spectre of deadly chytridiomycosis, an infectious fungal disease that has devastated amphibians around the world, has only added to the water frogs’ woes. Climate change, habitat destruction, pollution and the introduction of ravenous trout into the mountain rivers of South America conspired to send numbers of Sehuencas water frogs – Telmatobius yuracare, to use their scientific name – plunging.
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