Title
Rhinella yunga. Predation
Date Issued
01 September 2016
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
editorial
Author(s)
Centro de Capacitación en Conservación y Desarrollo Sostenible
Publisher(s)
Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles
Start page
442
Volume
47
Issue
3
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Conservación de la Biodiversidad
Zoología, Ornitología, Entomología, ciencias biológicas del comportamiento
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85019581927
Source
Herpetological Review
ISSN of the container
0018084X
Sponsor(s)
hese observations are part of the research project “Paramos sin fronteras”, financed by the Universidad de los Andes and Instituto Alexander Von Humboldt and directed by Santiago Madriñan Restrepo. I thank Crystal Kelehear for her help with the manuscript, J. J. Mueses-Cisneros for his teachings and the community of Monquentiva in Pantano de Martos for their interest in my research and cooperation. I am very grateful to David Camilo Martinez, for finding the nest and for his friendship during fieldwork. I thank Gladys Ariadna M.B for keeping my hopes up; she made every impossible, possible, while searching for the nervous frog.
Insects of the family Belastomatidae are known predators of amphibians (Mitchell and Johnston 2013. Herpetol. Rev. 44:124; Batista et al. 2014. Herpetol. Rev. 45:111), including members of the family Bufonidae (Cabrera-Guzman et al. 2015. Herpetol. Monogr. 29:28–39). Lethocerus spp. are ambush predators, often using their front legs to catch their prey before injecting it with digestive enzymes (Wells 2007. Ecology and Behavior of Amphibians. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois. 655 pp; Maffei et al. 2014. Herpetol. Notes 7:371–374). We thank the Centro de Capacitación en Conservación y De-sarrollo Sostenible for their hospitality as well as Crystal Kelehear for comments on the manuscript. This work was funded by the National Science Foundation (IOS-1350346).
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