Andrew Gray, Curator of Herpetology at Manchester Museum spent his career studying the Splendid leaf frog. However, when a supposed new species arrived from Central America, he made a shocking ...

Biologists from The University of Manchester have teamed up with experts at Chester Zoo in the hope that their findings will not only help save the splendid leaf frog Cruziohyla calcarifer from ...

A brightly-colored tropical frog under threat of extinction is the focus of a new research project hoping to better understand how environment and diet influence its development and behavior.

In a the Hylidae subfamily Phyllomedusinae, neotropical leaf frogs take on a different shape. The splendid leaf frog is a night owl that spends most of its life up in the trees, only descending to ...

Biologists from The University of Manchester have teamed up with experts at Chester Zoo in the hope that their findings will not only help save the splendid leaf frog Cruziohyla calcarifer from ...

Last year, Mr Gray caught a glimpse of the Ithsmohyla rivularis in the cloud forests of Monteverde - a frog that was thought to have gone extinct about 20 years ago. Manchester Museum has a splendid ...

"We have initiated a captive breeding programme for the Lemur Leaf Frog, and we have the world's only breeding population for the rare Splendid Leaf Frog." Last year, the Manchester Museum won a ...

And yet the diet of splendid leaf frogs affects their coloration which, in turn, determines their mating behavior. "The global decline in amphibian populations means research such as this ...

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Mr Gray caught a glimpse of the Ithsmohyla rivularis in the cloud forests of Monteverde - a frog that was thought to have gone extinct about 20 years ago. Manchester Museum has a splendid leaf ...

""One of the main things I have been doing is establishing breeding populations in Manchester Museum for a number of very, very rare species - including the splendid leaf frog (Cruziohyla calcarifer), ...